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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buttery

UK /ˈbʌtəɹi/ · US /ˈbʌt(ə)ɹi/ adjective, noun, proper noun

Forms butterier butteriest butteries Butterys

  1. adjective Made with or tasting of butter. “The buttery-tasting cookie was actually made with margarine, but you couldn't tell by tasting it.”
  2. adjective Resembling butter in some way, such as yellow color or smooth texture. “The old paper was a buttery color you no longer get.”
  3. adjective (informal) Marked by insincere flattery; obsequious.
  4. noun (Scotland) A rowie.
  5. noun A room for keeping food or beverages; a storeroom.
  6. noun (UK) A room in a university where snacks are sold.
  7. proper noun A surname from Anglo-Norman.

Synonyms

butterish butterlike butyraceous butyric pantry larder fulsome oily oleaginous smarmy soapy unctuous

Etymology

From Middle English buttry, equivalent to butter + -y. Piecewise doublet of butyric, butter ultimately being from Latin būtȳrum and -y being a doublet of -ic.

From Middle English boterie, from Old French boterie and Medieval Latin buteria, from Late Latin botāria, from a variant form of butta (“cask, bottle”). The form was probably influenced by butter.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Having the qualities, consistence, or appearance, of butter.
  2. noun An apartment in a house where butter, milk and other provisions are kept.
  3. noun A room in some English colleges where liquors, fruit, and refreshments are kept for sale to the students.

Etymology [OE. botery, botry; cf. LL. botaria wine vessel; also OE. botelerie, fr. F. bouteillerie, fr. boutellie bottle. Not derived from butter. See Bottle a hollow vessel, Butt a cask.]

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