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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crotch

UK /kɹɒt͡ʃ/ · US /kɹɑt͡ʃ/ noun, verb

Forms crotches crotching crotched

  1. noun The ventral area (very bottom) of the human body between where the legs fork from the torso, in the area of the genitals and anus. “Every mile they rode their crotches felt worse saddlepain.”
  2. noun (slang, euphemistic) Either the male or female genitalia. “He cringed at being kicked in the crotch.”
  3. noun The area where something forks or branches: where a ramification takes place. “There is a child sitting in a crotch of that tree.”
  4. noun (billiards) In the three-ball carom game, a small space at each corner of the table.
  5. noun (typography) The open counter (negative space) formed by two downward strokes that meet at an internal acute angle, potentially above a vertex, as in the letters "V" and "Y".
  6. verb (transitive) To provide with a crotch; to give the form of a crotch to. “to crotch the ends of ropes in splicing or tying knots”
  7. verb (transitive, Western US, timber industry, historical) To notch (a log) on opposite sides to provide a grip for the dogs that will haul it.
  8. verb (transitive) To shoplift or smuggle by hiding between one's thighs or in one's underwear.
  9. verb (transitive) To hit in the crotch (genital region).
  10. verb (transitive, sailing) To secure (the boom) to the boom crotch (a forked pole).
  11. verb (transitive, tree work) To hang (a rope) over a crotch in a tree so that the ends hang down from opposite sides.
  12. verb (transitive) To remove overgrown wool from around the eyes of.

Synonyms

fork genitalia genital organ genitals private parts privates

Antonyms

branch

Etymology

Of disputed origin; two possibilities seem likely:
* From Middle English croche, variant of crucche (“crutch”); compare crook.
* From Middle English croche, variant of crouche (“cross, crozier”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The angle formed by the parting of two legs or branches; a fork; the point where a trunk divides; as, the crotch of a tree.
  2. noun A stanchion or post of wood or iron, with two arms for supporting a boom, spare yards, etc.; --called also crane and crutch. Totten.

Etymology [Cf. Crotchet, Crutch.]

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