Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

θ	thin	ð	this	ʃ	she	ʒ	measure
tʃ	church	dʒ	judge	ŋ	sing	j	yes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

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)

-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.

cutthroat

/ˈkʌtθɹəʊt/ noun, adjective

Forms cutthroats cut-throat cut throat

noun A murderer who slits the throats of victims.
noun An unscrupulous, ruthless or unethical person.
noun (uncountable) A three-player pocket billiards game where the object is to be the last player with at least one ball still on the table.
adjective Involving the cutting of throats.
adjective Of or relating to a card game where everyone plays for him or herself rather than playing with a partner. “He found that playing cutthroat Spades was much more difficult than playing with a partner.”
adjective Ruthlessly competitive, dog-eat-dog. “Law is a cutthroat business, you always have to look out to see who is trying to outdo you.”

Synonyms

From cut + throat.

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