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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cop

UK /kɒp/ · US /kɑp/ verb, noun

Forms cops copping copped

  1. verb (transitive, informal, dated) To capture or arrest someone.
  2. verb (transitive, originally New York dialectal, informal, African-American Vernacular) To obtain, to purchase (items including but not limited to drugs), to get hold of, to take.
  3. verb (transitive) To (be forced to) take; to receive; to shoulder; to bear, especially blame or punishment for a particular instance of wrongdoing. “When caught, he would often cop a vicious blow from his father.”
  4. verb (transitive, trainspotting, slang) To see and record a railway locomotive for the first time.
  5. verb (transitive) To steal.
  6. verb (transitive) To adopt. “No need to cop a 'tude with me, junior.”
  7. verb (intransitive, usually with “to”, slang) To admit, especially to a crime or wrongdoing. “I already copped to the murder. What else do you want from me?”
  8. verb (transitive, slang, of a pimp) To recruit a prostitute into the stable.
  9. noun (informal) A police officer or prison guard.
  10. noun (obsolete) A spider.
  11. noun A quill or tube upon which silk is wound.
  12. noun (architecture, military) A merlon.
  13. noun (military, historical) A roughly dome-shaped piece of armor, especially one covering the shoulder, the elbow, or the knee.
  14. noun (spinning) A conical ball of thread wound on to the spindle in a spinning machine.
  15. noun (obsolete) The top, summit, especially of a hill.

Synonyms

5-O alphabet barney beatsman bizzie bluebottle bluecoat blue heeler blue meanie bobby body snatcher bogey boy in blue bull bullyman buttons centenier charpering omi chazzer cobbler copper fuzz pig hook snitch thieve knock off glom collar nail

Etymology

Uncertain. Perhaps from Middle English *coppen, *copen, from Old English copian (“to plunder; pillage; steal”); or possibly from Middle French caper (“to capture”), from Latin capiō (“to seize, grasp”); or possibly from Dutch kapen (“to seize, hijack”), from Old Frisian kāpia (“to buy”), whence West Frisian keapje, Saterland Frisian koopje, North Frisian koopi, kuupe. Compare also Middle English copen (“to buy”), from Middle Dutch copen.

Short for copper (“police officer”), itself from the verb cop (“to lay hold of”) above, in reference to arresting criminals. An erroneous folk etymology derives it from the acronym “Constable On Patrol” (C.O.P.).

From Middle English coppe, from Old English *coppe, as in ātorcoppe (“spider”, literally “venom head”), from Old English copp (“top, summit, head”), from Proto-West Germanic *kopp, from Proto-Germanic *kuppaz (“vault, round vessel, head”), from Proto-Indo-European *gew- (“to bend, curve”). Cognate with Middle Dutch koppe, kobbe (“spider”). More at cobweb.

From Middle English cop, coppe, from Old English cop, copp, from Proto-West Germanic *kopp, from Proto-Germanic *kuppaz (“vault, basin, round object”), from Proto-Indo-European *gew-. Cognate with Dutch kop, German Kopf.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The top of a thing; the head; a crest. [Obs.]
  2. noun A conical or conical-ended mass of coiled thread, yarn, or roving, wound upon a spindle, etc.

Etymology [AS. cop; cf. G. kopf head. Cf. Cup, Cob.]

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