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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cadge

/kæd͡ʒ/ verb, noun

Forms cadges cadging cadgin cadged

  1. verb (transitive, obsolete) To tie, fasten.
  2. verb (Geordie) To beg.
  3. verb (US, UK, slang) To obtain something by wit or guile; to convince people to do something they might not normally do. “Are ye gannin te cadge a lift of yoer fatha?”
  4. noun (falconry) A circular frame on which cadgers carry hawks for sale.
  5. verb To carry hawks and other birds of prey.
  6. verb (UK, Scotland, dialect) To carry, as a burden.
  7. verb (UK, Scotland, dialect) To hawk or peddle, as fish, poultry, etc.

Synonyms

scrounge bum beg blag leech mooch mump scunge sponge tap wheedle grub schnorr shnorr

Etymology

From Middle English caggen (“to tie, fasten, bind”), probably from Old Norse. Compare Old Norse kǫgurr (“quilt”), kǫgurbarn (“swaddled child”).

Likely a corruption of cage.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To carry, as a burden. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Halliwell.
  2. verb To hawk or peddle, as fish, poultry, etc. [Prov.]
  3. noun A circular frame on which cadgers carry hawks for sale.

Etymology [Cf. Scot. cache, caich, cadge, to toss, drive, OE. cachen to drive, catch, caggen to bind, or perh. E. cage. Cf. Cadger.]

Etymology [Cf. 2d Cadger.]

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