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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cough up

verb

Forms coughs up coughing up coughed up

  1. verb (transitive) To expel from the lungs, throat, stomach, etc. by coughing. “He was coughing up blood.”
  2. verb Of money: to pay or disburse reluctantly. “Do you think he'll be able to cough up the three grand by Tuesday?”
  3. verb Of other objects: to hand over, give.
  4. verb (intransitive, slang) To confess; to give up information.
  5. verb (idiomatic) To lose a competition by one's own mistakes, usually near the end of the contest. “That team had the game won, but they coughed it up in the end.”
  6. verb (transitive, idiomatic) To spill, to fumble.

Synonyms

shell out fork out fork over pony up spit up expectorate cough out spit out

Etymology

From Middle English coughen up, equivalent to cough + up. Sense 2.1 was perhaps influenced by coffers of money.
(to lose by one's own mistakes): Compare typologically Russian проду́ть (prodútʹ), профу́кать (profúkatʹ).

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 — from the Wiktionary entry “cough up”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details