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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chuck

/t͡ʃʌk/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms chucks chucking chucked chock chack 'chuck

  1. noun (cooking) Meat from the shoulder of a cow or other animal.
  2. noun (US, slang, dated) Food.
  3. noun (mechanical engineering) A mechanical device that holds an object firmly in place, for example holding a drill bit in a high-speed rotating drill or grinder.
  4. verb To place in a chuck, or hold by means of a chuck, as in turning.
  5. verb To bore or turn (a hole) in a revolving piece held in a chuck.
  6. noun (dialect, obsolete) A chicken, a hen.
  7. noun A clucking sound.
  8. noun (slang) A friend or close acquaintance; term of endearment. “Are you all right, chuck?”
  9. verb To make a clucking sound.
  10. verb To call, as a hen her chickens.
  11. verb (obsolete) To chuckle; to laugh.
  12. noun A gentle touch or tap. “She gave him an affectionate chuck under the chin.”
  13. noun (informal) A casual throw.
  14. noun (cricket, informal) A throw, an incorrect bowling action.
  15. noun (slang) An act or instance of vomiting.
  16. noun (music) On rhythm guitar or mandolin etc., the muting of a chord by lifting the fretting fingers immediately after strumming, producing a percussive effect.
  17. verb To playfully give a light touch, stroke, tap, etc., to someone, especially under the chin.
  18. verb (transitive, informal) To throw, especially in a careless or inaccurate manner. “Chuck that magazine to me, would you?”
  19. verb (intransitive, cricket) To throw; to bowl with an incorrect action.
  20. verb (transitive, informal) To discard, to throw away. “This food's gone off - you'd better chuck it.”

Synonyms

fling hurl bung cast chunk cook dash dump feck jerk heave hield hoy huck hurtle launch lob peck peg pick chow eats grub toss ditch pat vomit vomit up purge sick

Etymology

Variant of chock.

From Middle English chuk, of onomatopoeic origin, imitative of a hen's cluck.

From Middle English chukken, from the noun (see above).

From earlier chock, likely imitative, but perhaps also from Middle English chokken (“to thrust, pierce, cram”), from Picard Old French chuquier (“to collide, strike”, intransitive verb), from Middle Dutch schocken (“to bump, shake”). Doublet of shock and shuck.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To make a noise resembling that of a hen when she calls her chickens; to cluck.
  2. verb To chuckle; to laugh. [R.] Marston.
  3. verb To call, as a hen her chickens. Dryden.
  4. noun The chuck or call of a hen.

Etymology [Imitative of the sound.]

Etymology [F. choquer to strike. Cf. Shock, v. t.]

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