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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doughnut

UK /ˈdəʊnʌt/ · US /ˈdoʊ(ˌ)nʌt/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms doughnuts doughnutting doughnuting doughnutted doughnuted the Doughnut do'nut donut dough-nut

  1. noun A deep-fried piece of dough or batter, usually mixed with various sweeteners and flavors, often made in a toroidal or ellipsoidal shape flattened sphere shape filled with jelly/jam, custard, or cream.
  2. noun (attributive) A circular life raft.
  3. noun (physics) A toroidal vacuum chamber.
  4. noun (Australia, Canada, US) A peel-out or skid mark in the shape of a circle; a 360-degree skid.
  5. noun A spare car tyre, usually stored in the boot, that is smaller than a full-sized tyre and is only intended for temporary use.
  6. noun A kind of tyre for an airplane.
  7. noun A shaper for making hair into a ponytail or bun
  8. noun (slang, vulgar) A vulva; by extension, a woman's virginity.
  9. verb To encircle something.
  10. proper noun (informal, UK) The head office of the GCHQ in Cheltenham, UK.

Synonyms

ring torus toroid axe wound badly packed kebab bearded clam beaver beef curtains burger chocha clam cooch coochie coochy cookie coot cooter crack cunny cunt halo annulus anchor ring donut sinker

Etymology

From dough + nut, 1809 because originally small, nut-sized balls of fried dough, or, more likely, from nut in the earlier sense of "small rounded cake or cookie", with the toroidal shape becoming common in the twentieth century. First attested in Knickerbocker’s History of New York, by Washington Irving, 1809.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A small cake (usually sweetened) fried in a kettle of boiling lard.

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