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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cocker

UK /ˈkɒkə/ · US /ˈkɑkəɹ/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms cockers cockering cockered

  1. noun One who breeds gamecocks or engages in the sport of cockfighting.
  2. noun (dated) One who hunts woodcocks.
  3. noun (colloquial) A cocker spaniel, either of two breeds of dogs originally bred for hunting woodcocks.
  4. noun A device that aids in cocking a crossbow.
  5. noun A rustic high shoe; half-boot.
  6. noun (obsolete) A quiver.
  7. noun (UK, informal) Friend, mate.
  8. verb To make a nestle-cock of; to indulge or pamper (particularly of children).
  9. proper noun A surname.
  10. proper noun A river in Cumbria, England, which joins the Derwent at Cockermouth.
  11. proper noun A short river in Lancashire, England, which flows into the Lune estuary.

Synonyms

cockfighter friend cosset pamper posset cocker spaniel English cocker spaniel featherbed baby coddle mollycoddle spoil indulge

Etymology

From cock (“a male bird, especially a rooster”) and its derivative cocking (“the hunting of gamecocks”), + -er (occupational suffix) or + -er (agent noun suffix).

From Middle English coker (“a quiver, boot”) from Old English cocer (“quiver, case”) from Proto-West Germanic *kukur (“container, case”), said to be from Hunnic, possibly from Proto-Mongolic *kökexür (“leather vessel for liquids”). More at quiver.

Uncertain. Perhaps from Middle English cokeren (“to pamper, coddle”); compare Welsh cocru (“to indulge, fondle”), French coqueliner (“to dandle, to imitate the crow of a cock, to run after the girls”), and English cockle and cock (“rooster; to spoil”).

* As an English surname, from the verb cock (“to fight, wrangle”), itself from the bird. The river in Lancashire is also from the bird.
* Also as an English surname, from the noun cock (sense 3) (“heap of hay”).
* As a German surname, Americanized from Kocher.
* The river in Cumbria is of Brythonic origin, from Proto-Brythonic *kukrā (“the crooked one”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb Th treat with too great tenderness; to fondle; to indulge; to pamper.
  2. noun One given to cockfighting. [Obs.] Steele.
  3. noun A small dog of the spaniel kind, used for starting up woodcocks, etc.
  4. noun A rustic high shoe or half-boots. [Obs.] Drayton.

Etymology [OE. cokeren; cf. W. cocru to indulge, fondle, E. cock the bird, F. coqueliner to dandle (Cotgrave), to imitate the crow of a cock, to run after the girls, and E. cockle, v.]

Etymology [From Cock the bird.]

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