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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clout

/klaʊt/ noun, verb

Also a form of clot

Forms clouts clouting clouted

  1. noun (informal) Influence or effectiveness, especially political.
  2. noun A blow with the hand.
  3. noun (baseball, informal) A home run.
  4. noun (archery) The center of the butt at which archers shoot; probably once a piece of white cloth or a nail head.
  5. noun (regional, dated) A swaddling cloth, nappy, or loincloth.
  6. noun (archaic) A cloth; a piece of cloth or leather; a patch; a rag.
  7. noun (archaic) An iron plate on an axletree or other wood to keep it from wearing; a washer.
  8. noun A clout nail.
  9. verb To hit (someone or something), especially with the fist.
  10. verb To cover with cloth, leather, or other material; to bandage, patch, or mend with a clout.
  11. verb To stud with nails, as a timber, or a boot sole.
  12. verb To guard with an iron plate, as an axletree.
  13. verb To join or patch clumsily.

Synonyms

pull clout nail punch poke lick biff slug

Etymology

From Middle English clout (“piece of cloth”), from Old English clūt (“piece of cloth, patch; metal plate”), from Proto-West Germanic *klūt, from Proto-Germanic *klūtaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gelewdos, from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to ball up, amass”). The influence sense originated in the dialect of Chicago, but has become widespread.
Cognate with Old Norse klútr (“kerchief”), Swedish klut, Danish klud, Middle High German klōz (“lump”), whence German Kloß (“clump”), and dialectal Russian глуда (gluda). See also cleat.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A cloth; a piece of cloth or leather; a patch; a rag. His garments, nought but many ragged clouts, With thorns together pinned and patched was. Spenser.
  2. noun A swadding cloth.
  3. verb To cover with cloth, leather, or other material; to bandage; patch, or mend, with a clout.
  4. verb To join or patch clumsily.

Etymology [AS. clut a little cloth, piece of metal; cf. Sw. klut, Icel. klutr a kerchief, or W. clwt a clout, Gael. clud.]

Etymology [OE. clutien. clouten, to patch. See Clout, n.]

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