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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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bunk

/bʌŋk/ noun, verb, adjective, proper noun

Forms bunks bunking bunked

  1. noun One of a series of berths or beds placed in tiers. “Jane sleeps in the top bunk, and her little sister Lauren takes the bottom bunk.”
  2. noun (nautical) A built-in bed on board ship, often erected in tiers one above the other.
  3. noun (military) A cot.
  4. noun (informal) A bed in a prison, worksite or similar location.
  5. noun (US) A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night.
  6. noun (US, dialect) A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers.
  7. noun (Singapore, military, by extension) A dormitory or bunkroom where soldiers sleep. “Don’t leave your bunk unlocked.”
  8. verb To occupy a bunk. “Due to bed shortages, Jeff and Paul had to bunk together.”
  9. verb To provide a bunk.
  10. noun (slang, dated) Bunkum; senseless talk, nonsense. “What she said about me was total bunk. Don't believe a word.”
  11. noun (obsolete) In early use often in the form the bunk.
  12. noun (slang) A specimen of a recreational drug with insufficient active ingredient.
  13. adjective (slang) Defective, broken, not functioning properly.
  14. verb (UK, India, slang) To fail to attend school or work without permission; to play truant (usually 'to bunk off'). “The naughty boys decided to bunk school and visit the comic shop.”
  15. verb (UK, dated, slang) To expel from a school.
  16. verb (slang) To depart; scram.
  17. noun (slang) A hasty departure.
  18. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

hokum feed bunk berth built in bed bunkum buncombe guff rot hogwash nonsense nonsensicality meaninglessness bunk bed beat scat run scarper turn tail lam run away hightail it head for the hills take to the woods escape fly the coop break away

Etymology

Sense of sleeping berth possibly from Scottish Scottish English bunker (“seat, bench”), the origin of which is uncertain but possibly Scandinavian (North Germanic); compare Old Swedish bunke (“boards used to protect the cargo of a ship”). Possibly related to bunch.

Shortened from bunkum, a variant of buncombe, from Buncombe County, North Carolina. See bunkum for more.

19th century, of uncertain origin; perhaps from previous "to occupy a bunk" meaning, with connotations of a hurried departure, as if on a ship.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night. [U.S.]
  2. noun One of a series of berths or bed places in tiers.
  3. verb To go to bed in a bunk; --sometimes with in. [Colloq. U.S.]

Etymology [Cf. OSw. bunke heap, also boaring, flooring. Cf. Bunch.]

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