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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crawler

noun

Forms crawlers

  1. noun A child who is able to creep using its hands and knees but is not able to walk.
  2. noun (sports) A crawl swimmer.
  3. noun A tractor crawler, a motorized vehicle that uses caterpillar tracks instead of wheels.
  4. noun (Internet) A software bot that autonomously follows connected paths such as links between web pages.
  5. noun A mobile stage in the development of stationary hemipteran insects such as scale insects—generally the first instar.
  6. noun (UK, slang, obsolete) A cab that is driven slowly along while its driver looks out for a fare.
  7. noun Synonym of crawler crane.
  8. noun (Australia, obsolete) A person who is abused, physically or verbally, and returns to the abuser a supplicant.
  9. noun (UK, Australia, slang) A sycophant.

Synonyms

spider crawler crane sycophant toady lackey ass-kisser creeper earthworm angleworm fishworm fishing worm wiggler nightwalker nightcrawler dew worm red worm

Etymology

From crawl (“to move slowly, by dragging the body along the ground”) + -er.

From crawl (“to act in a servile manner”) + -er.
From the Australian convict period (1788–1850); a prisoner who was purposely and extensively abused by an overseer (also a convict) and thereby driven to escape but who, finding it impossible to survive in the Australian bush, surrenders to this overseer, who would then have his penal term reduced. The particular crawler was picked for his weak personality and might escape and return a number of times increasing his own penal term each time. According to James Tucker, some convict overseers had their sentences extensively reduced using this odious practice.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who, or that which, crawls; a creeper; a reptile.
  2. noun A racing stroke, in which the swimmer, lying flat on the water with face submerged, takes alternate overhand arm strokes while moving his legs up and down alternately from the knee.

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