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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chipper

UK /ˈtʃɪpə/ · US /ˈt͡ʃɪpɚ/ adjective, noun, verb

Forms chipperer chipperest chippers chippering chippered

  1. adjective Exhibiting a lively optimism; in high spirits, cheerful.
  2. noun Someone who or something which chips (e.g. wood).
  3. noun (in particular, US) A machine that reduces organic matter to compost; depending on size, whole tree trunks are reduced to sawdust; a woodchipper.
  4. noun A machine that chips potatoes into pieces that are ready to be fried and made into chips.
  5. noun (Ireland, North East Scotland, slang) A fish and chip shop, or more generally a cheap fast food outlet, typically selling chips and other deep-fried foods.
  6. noun A company that manufactures potato chips/potato crisps.
  7. noun (sports) A player who chips the ball.
  8. noun (golf) A golf club for making chip shots.
  9. noun (slang) A deep frier.
  10. verb (UK, dialect) To chirp or chirrup.

Synonyms

chippy greasy spoon hole-in-the-wall debonair debonaire jaunty

Etymology

From English dialectal kipper (“nimble; frisky”), of obscure origin. Perhaps akin to Old Norse kjapt (“briskly; impetuously”), kippa ("to snatch; pull; jerk" > Middle English kippen (“to seize”)), kipra (“to wrinkle; draw tightly”), Norwegian kjapp (“fast; brisk”), Dutch kippen (“to seize; catch; grip”). More at kip.

From chip + -er.

Compare cheep, chirp.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To chirp or chirrup. [ Prov. Eng.] Forby.
  2. adjective Lively; cheerful; talkative. [U. S.]

Etymology [Cf. Cheep, Chirp.]

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