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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dink

/dɪŋk/ noun, verb, adjective, adverb

Also a form of drink

Forms dinks dinking dinked

  1. noun (tennis) A soft drop shot.
  2. noun (pickleball) A soft drop shot played at or near the non-volley zone.
  3. noun (soccer) A light chip; a chipped pass or shot
  4. verb (tennis) To play a soft drop shot.
  5. verb (pickleball) To play a soft drop shot at or near the non-volley zone.
  6. verb (cricket) To strike the ball gently.
  7. verb (soccer) To chip lightly, to play a light chip shot. “The forward dinked the ball over the goalkeeper to score his first goal of the season.”
  8. verb (video games, slang, transitive) To land a non-lethal headshot on.
  9. noun (Australia, colloquial) A ride on the crossbar or handlebars of a bicycle. “I gave him a dink on my bike.”
  10. verb (Australia, colloquial) To carry someone on a pushbike: behind, on the crossbar or on the handlebar.
  11. noun (US, military slang, derogatory, ethnic slur, dated) A Vietnamese person.
  12. adjective (Australia, New Zealand) Honest, fair, true.
  13. adjective (Australia, New Zealand) Genuine, proper, fair dinkum.
  14. adverb (Australia, New Zealand) Honestly, truly.
  15. noun (Australia, Northern England) Hard work, especially one's share of a task.
  16. noun (historical, dated) A soldier from Australia or New Zealand, a member of the ANZAC forces during the First World War.
  17. noun (Canada, US, colloquial, slang) The penis.
  18. noun (Canada, US, colloquial, slang) A foolish or contemptible person.
  19. adjective (archaic or dialectal) Finely dressed, elegant; neat.

Synonyms

goosh gook drop shot

Antonyms

DIWK

Etymology

Imitative. Originally US. Attested since the 1930s.

Origin unknown. Attested since the 1930s.

* A rhythmatic reduplicative of Chink, a derogatory term for a Chinese person. Attested from Australia since the 1960s (consult the American Heritage Dictionary).
* or, clipping of dinky dau/dow, a corrupted borrowing from Vietnamese điên cái đầu (“[you make my] head goes crazy”).

See dinkum.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Trim; neat. [Scot.] Burns.
  2. verb To deck; --often with out or up. [Scot.]

Etymology [Etymol. uncertain.]

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