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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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dildo

UK /ˈdɪldəʊ/ · US /ˈdɪldoʊ/ noun, verb, interjection, proper noun

Forms dildos dildoes dildoing dildoed dildoides dildidoes

  1. noun A device used for sexual penetration or another sexual activity. “Anything's a dildo if you're brave enough.”
  2. noun An artificial penis.
  3. noun (slang, vulgar, derogatory) Any device or implement.
  4. noun (slang, derogatory) An idiot; a bore.
  5. noun A columnar cactus of the West Indies (Pilosocereus royenii).
  6. verb (transitive) To penetrate with a dildo or with another object as if it were a dildo.
  7. interjection (obsolete) A burden: a phrase or theme that recurs at the end of a verse of a folk song.
  8. proper noun A small town on the island of Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

Synonyms

addle-brain addlehead addle pate airhead baboon beanbrain beetlebrain beetlehead berk bimbo birdbrain blockhead blubberbrain bonehead Boeotian boob bozo brainlet brickhead bubblehead

Etymology

Unclear; possibly an alteration of English diddle. Compare the use as an expressive nonsense syllable in often sexual songs and the spelling dil doul, found in e.g. The Maids Complaint for want of a Dil Doul, a song in the library of Samuel Pepys. Unlikely to be related to Italian diletto (“delight”) or Latin dīlātō (“to open up, spread”), often cited etymologies.

Related to other nonsense syllables like dido and diddle(-diddle), which similarly developed sexual senses. Found since at least the 1500s, often in contexts where allusion is being made to the sexual sense (above). Possibly influenced by Middle English dildoun (“darling, pet”), early modern English dildin (“sweetheart”); compare Old Norse dilla (“to lull”), dillindo (“lullaby”).

Uncertain; see the Wikipedia article for some possible origins.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A burden in popular songs. [Obs.]
  2. noun A columnar cactaceous plant of the West Indies (Cereus Swartzii).

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