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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cocky

UK /ˈkɒki/ · US /ˈkɑki/ adjective, noun, verb

Forms cockier cockiest cockies cockying cockied cockey cockie

  1. adjective Overly confident; arrogant and boastful.
  2. noun (chiefly UK, Ireland, Newfoundland, colloquial, dated) Used as a term of endearment, originally for a person of either sex, but later primarily for a man.
  3. noun (informal) A familiar name for a cockatoo.
  4. verb (intransitive, chiefly Australia, informal, historical) To operate a small-scale farm.

Synonyms

airy arrogant chesty authoritarian biggity big-headed blustery turgescent boastful lordly bombastic buggish conceited disdainful domineering egotistical entitled flatulent flaunting full of oneself

Etymology

From cock (“male domestic chicken”) + -y (suffix forming adjectives with the sense of ‘having the quality of’).

From cock (“male domestic chicken”) + -y (diminutive suffix).

The noun is derived from cock(atoo) + -y (diminutive suffix). The verb is derived from the noun.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Pert. [Slang]

Etymology [See Cocket.]

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