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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fatty

/ˈfæt.i/ adjective, noun

Forms fattier fattiest fatties fattie

  1. adjective Containing, composed of, or consisting of fat. “fatty tissues”
  2. adjective Sometimes, especially, containing excess fat. “fatty liver”
  3. adjective Like fat; greasy.
  4. adjective Of or related to fat. “fatty acid”
  5. adjective (slang) Literally or figuratively large.
  6. noun (derogatory, slang) An obese person. “It's hardly surprising, when it has to support that enormous gut! Lose some weight, fatty!”
  7. noun (slang) A large marijuana cigar; a blunt.
  8. noun A type of game played with marbles.

Synonyms

steatotic fatlike fatso fat person roly-poly butterball fat

Antonyms

nonfat

Etymology

From Middle English fatty, equivalent to fat + -y. Cognate with Saterland Frisian fattig (“fatty”), Dutch vettig (“fatty, greasy”), German Low German fettig (“fatty”), German fettig (“fatty”).

From fat + -y (diminutive suffix).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Containing fat, or having the qualities of fat; greasy; gross; as, a fatty substance. Fatty acid (Chem.), any one of the paraffin series of monocarbonic acids, as formic acid, acetic, etc.; --so called because the higher members, as stearic and palmitic acids, occur in the natural fats, and are themselves fatlike substances.

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

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “fatty” (best matches first).