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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butcher

UK /ˈbʊt͡ʃə/ · US /ˈbʊt͡ʃɚ/ noun, verb, proper noun

Also a form of butch

Forms butchers butchering butchered

  1. noun A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals).
  2. noun (figurative) A brutal or indiscriminate killer.
  3. noun (Cockney rhyming slang, from butcher's hook) A look.
  4. noun (informal, obsolete) A person who sells candy, drinks, etc. in theatres, trains, circuses, etc.
  5. noun (colloquial, archaic, card games) A king playing card.
  6. verb (transitive) To slaughter (animals) and prepare (meat) for market.
  7. verb (intransitive) To work as a butcher.
  8. verb (transitive) To kill brutally.
  9. verb (transitive) To ruin (something), often to the point of defamation. “The band at that bar really butchered "Hotel California".”
  10. verb (transitive) To mess up hopelessly; to botch; to distort beyond recognition. “I am bad at pronouncing names, so my apologies if I butcher any of your names.”
  11. proper noun A surname originating as an occupation for a butcher.

Synonyms

mayhemist flesher slayer kill slaughter massacre slay murder debase bastardize meatman slaughterer bungler blunderer fumbler bumbler stumbler sad sack botcher fuckup

Etymology

From Middle English bocher, boucher, from Old French bouchier (“goat slaughterer”), from Old French bouc (“goat”), from Medieval Latin buccus (“he-goat”), from Frankish *bukk, from Proto-Germanic *bukkaz (“male goat, male deer”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuǵ- (“buck, ram”). See also English buck.

From butch + -er.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who slaughters animals, or dresses their flesh for market; one whose occupation it is to kill animals for food.
  2. noun A slaughterer; one who kills in large numbers, or with unusual cruelty; one who causes needless loss of life, as in battle. "Butcher of an innocent child." Shak. Butcher bird (Zoöl.), a species of shrike of the genus Lanius.
  3. verb To kill or slaughter (animals) for food, or for market; as, to butcher hogs.
  4. verb To murder, or kill, especially in an unusually bloody or barbarous manner. Macaulay.

Etymology [OE. bochere, bochier, OF. bochier, F. boucher, orig., slaughterer of buck goats, fr. OF. boc, F. bouc, a buck goat; of German or Celtic origin. See Buck the animal.]

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

Sanskrit

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