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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dribble

UK /ˈdɹɪ.bəl/ · US /ˈdɹɪ.bɫ̩/ verb, noun

Forms dribbles dribbling dribbled

  1. verb (basketball, soccer) In various ball games, to move (with) the ball, controlling its path by kicking or bouncing it repeatedly.
  2. verb To let saliva drip from the mouth; to drool. “The baby dribbled onto its bib.”
  3. verb (intransitive) To fall in drops or an unsteady stream; to trickle.
  4. verb (intransitive, figurative) To move or roll slowly or in small quantities.
  5. verb (transitive) To let something fall in drips.
  6. verb (dated) To live or pass one's time in a trivial fashion.
  7. verb To perform a card flourish in which the cards fall smoothly from one's hand.
  8. noun (uncountable) Drool; saliva.
  9. noun (uncountable, colloquial) Rubbish; worthless matter.
  10. noun (countable) A weak, unsteady stream; a trickle.
  11. noun (countable) A small amount of a liquid.
  12. noun (countable, sports) The act of moving (with) a ball by kicking or bouncing it.
  13. noun (countable) A card flourish in which the cards fall smoothly from one's hand.

Synonyms

drip trickle drool drivel slobber dribbling filter drop carry slabber slaver

Etymology

From drib + -le (frequentative suffix).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To fall in drops or small drops, or in a quick succession of drops; as, water dribbles from the eaves.
  2. verb To slaver, as a child or an idiot; to drivel.
  3. verb To let fall in drops.
  4. noun A drizzling shower; a falling or leaking in drops. [Colloq.]

Etymology [Freq. of drib, which is a variant of drip.]

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