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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dauber

/ˈdɔːbə(ɹ)/ noun, proper noun

Forms daubers

  1. noun (derogatory) One who, or that which, daubs; especially, a coarse, unskillful painter.
  2. noun (copperplate printing) A pad or ball of rags, covered with canvas, for inking plates.
  3. noun A type of thick marker pen used to mark a bingo card.
  4. noun (archaic) A low and gross flatterer.
  5. noun The mud wasp; the mud dauber.
  6. proper noun A surname from German.

Synonyms

alcatote auf botcher bumbler bungler blunderer blunderhead butterfingers chucklehead clodhopper duffer dumbshit fuckup fumblefingers fumbler galoot gaum gawk gobaloon goon

Etymology

From Middle English daubere, equivalent to daub + -er.

Borrowed from German Dauber.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who, or that which, daubs; especially, a coarse, unskillful painter.
  2. noun A pad or ball of rags, covered over with canvas, for inking plates; a dabber.

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