Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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bulge

/ˈbʌldʒ/ noun, verb

Forms bulges bulging bulged

  1. noun An object which is sticking out from a surface; a swelling, protuberant part; a bending outward, especially when caused by pressure. “a bulge in a wall”
  2. noun The bilge or protuberant part of a cask.
  3. noun (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) A rounded fleshy mass, such as on a camel or zebu.
  4. noun (nautical) The bilge of a vessel.
  5. noun (colloquial) The outline of a (usually erect) penis visible through one's clothing.
  6. noun (figurative) A sudden rise in value or quantity.
  7. verb (intransitive) To stick out from a surface without breaking it. “He stood six feet tall, with muscular arms bulging out of his black T-shirt.”
  8. verb (intransitive) (of a container, etc.) To have the surface stretched by something pushing out; to swell; to belly. “The submarine bulged because of the enormous air pressure inside.”
  9. verb (intransitive) To bilge, as a ship; to founder.

Synonyms

swell hump basket crotchbulge crotch tent cockbulge dick print girlbulge junk lunchbox manbulge mooseknuckle package packet pocket rocket tent trouser tent bump swelling gibbosity gibbousness jut prominence protuberance protrusion extrusion excrescence pouch protrude bag

Etymology

From Middle English bulge (“leather bag; hump”), from Old Northern French boulge (“leather bag”), from Late Latin bulga (“leather sack”), from Gaulish *bulga, *bulgos, from Proto-Celtic *bolgos (“sack, bag, stomach”). Cognate with bilge, belly, bellows, budget, French bouge, German Balg, etc. Doublet of budge, and from the same root as belly and bellows. See also budget.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The bilge or protuberant part of a cask.
  2. noun A swelling, protuberant part; a bending outward, esp. when caused by pressure; as, a bulge in a wall.
  3. verb To swell or jut out; to bend outward, as a wall when it yields to pressure; to be protuberant; as, the wall bulges.
  4. verb To bilge, as a ship; to founder.

Etymology [OE. bulge a swelling; cf. AS. belgan to swell, OSw. bulgja, Icel. bolginn swollen, OHG. belgan to swell, G. bulge leathern sack, Skr. b to be large, strong; the root meaning to swell. Cf. Bilge, Belly, Billow, Bouge, n.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “bulge”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details