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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fag

/fæɡ/ noun, verb

Forms fags fagging fagged

  1. noun (US, technical) In textile inspections, a rough or coarse defect in the woven fabric.
  2. noun (UK, Ireland, Australia, colloquial) A cigarette.
  3. noun (UK, Ireland, obsolete, colloquial) The worst part or end of a thing.
  4. noun (colloquial, now rare) A chore: an arduous and tiresome task.
  5. noun (education, historical, colloquial) A younger student acting as a servant for senior students (potentially in a sexual or abusive way).
  6. verb (transitive, colloquial, used mainly in passive form, now rare) To make exhausted, tired out.
  7. verb (intransitive, colloquial, now rare) To droop; to tire.
  8. verb (intransitive, UK, Ireland, education, historical, colloquial) (of a younger student) To act as a servant for senior students in many British boarding schools. To be the servant in fagging.
  9. verb (transitive, UK, Ireland, education, historical, colloquial) To have (a younger student) act as a servant in this way, in fagging.
  10. verb (intransitive, UK, Ireland, now rare) To work hard, especially on menial chores.
  11. noun (US, Canada, vulgar, usually offensive, sometimes endearing) A homosexual man.
  12. noun (US, Canada, vulgar, usually offensive, sometimes endearing, by extension) a homosexual person of any gender.
  13. noun (US, Canada, vulgar, usually offensive, sometimes endearing, by extension) a queer person in general.
  14. noun (slang, vulgar, offensive, usually derogatory) An effeminate or unusual homosexual man.
  15. noun (US, vulgar, derogatory, offensive) An annoying or contemptible person. “Why did you do that, you fag?”

Synonyms

bine blem bogie boagie butt cancerette cancer stick boon cig ciggy coffin nail cowboy killer darb dart death stick durben durrie durry gaf gasper fagot faggot fairy nance pansy queen queer poof poove pouf

Etymology

Probably from fag end (“remnant”), from Middle English fagge (“flap”).

Akin to flag (“droop, tire”). Compare Dutch vaak (“sleepiness”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To become weary; to tire.
  2. verb To labor to wearness; to work hard; to drudge.
  3. verb To tire by labor; to exhaust; as, he was almost fagged out.
  4. verb Anything that fatigues. [R.]

Etymology [Cf. LG. fakk wearied, weary, vaak slumber, drowsiness, OFries. fai, equiv. to fach devoted to death, OS. f, OHG. feigi, G. feig, feige, cowardly, Icel. feigr fated to die, AS. f, Scot. faik, to fail, stop, lower the price; or perh. the same word as E. flag to droop.]

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