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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bung

/ˈbʌŋ/ noun, verb, adjective

Also a form of bong

Forms bungs bunging bunged bong bonge boung bounge

  1. noun A stopper, alternative to a cork, often made of rubber, used to prevent fluid passing through the neck of a bottle, vat, a hole in a vessel etc.
  2. noun The cecum or anus, especially of livestock but sometimes (slang) of humans.
  3. noun (slang) A bribe.
  4. noun The orifice in the bilge of a cask through which it is filled; bung-hole.
  5. noun (obsolete, slang) A sharper or pickpocket.
  6. noun (UK, slang, obsolete) The landlord of a public house.
  7. verb (transitive) To plug, as with a bung.
  8. verb (UK, Australia, transitive, informal) To put, throw, or place something without care; to chuck.
  9. verb (transitive) To batter, bruise; to cause to bulge or swell.
  10. verb (transitive) To pass a bribe to (someone).
  11. adjective (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Broken, not in working order; damaged; injured.
  12. noun (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) A purse.

Synonyms

spile tip fee

Etymology

From Medieval Dutch bonge, bonne or bonghe (“stopper”), or perhaps from French bonde, which may itself be either of Germanic origin or from Proto-Celtic *bunda—either way probably from puncta (“hole”), the feminine singular form of Latin punctus, perfect passive participle of pungō (“pierce into, prick”).

Borrowed from Yagara bang (“dead”).

From bouget (“wallet, purse or bag”), from Middle English bogett, bouget, bowgette (“leather pouch”), from Old French bougette, diminutive of bouge (“leather bag, wallet”), from Late Latin bulga (“wallet, purse”), from Gaulish bolgā, from Proto-Celtic *bolgos (“sack, bag, stomach”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰólǵʰ-os (“skin bag, bolster”), from *bʰelǵʰ- (“to swell”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The large stopper of the orifice in the bilge of a cask.
  2. noun The orifice in the bilge of a cask through which it is filled; bunghole.
  3. verb To stop, as the orifice in the bilge of a cask, with a bung; to close; --with up. To bung up, to use up, as by bruising or over exertion; to exhaust or incapacitate for action. [Low]

Etymology [Cf. W. bwng orfice, bunghole, Ir. buinne tap, spout, OGael. buine.]

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