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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chubby

/ˈt͡ʃʌbi/ adjective, noun

Forms chubbier chubbiest chubbies

  1. adjective Of a person: slightly overweight, somewhat fat, and hence plump, rounded, and soft. “Obviously the chubby child was eating too much.”
  2. adjective Of a body part: containing a moderate amount of fat. “It’s quite normal for babies to have chubby cheeks.”
  3. noun A chubby, plump person.
  4. noun (chiefly gay slang) An overweight or obese gay man.
  5. noun (slang) A penile erection, especially when short and with a large circumference; a boner.
  6. noun A type of thickly-padded fur jacket.

Synonyms

chunky plump podgy tubby portly embonpoint

Etymology

Recorded since 1611, from chub (“short, thick fish species used as bait"; used metaphorically since 1558 for "lazy person”), an assibilated form of cub (“a lump, heap, mass”) and cob, from Middle English *cubbe (found only in derivative cubbel (“a block to which an animal is tethered”)), from Old Norse kubbr, kumbr (“block, stump, log”) and/or Old Norse kumben (“stumpy”), equivalent to chub + -y. Cognate with dialectal Swedish kubbug (“fat, plump, chubby”). More at chub.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Like a chub; plump, short, and thick. "Chubby faces." I. Taylor.

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