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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flannel

/ˈflænəl/ noun, adjective, verb

Forms flannels flanneling flannelling flanneled flannelled flannen flanan flanning flanen

  1. noun (uncountable) A soft cloth material originally woven from wool, today often combined with cotton or synthetic fibers. “With the weather turning colder, it was time to dig out our flannel sheets and nightclothes.”
  2. noun (New Zealand, UK, countable) A washcloth.
  3. noun (US, countable) A flannel shirt.
  4. noun (slang, uncountable) Soothing, plausible untruth or half-truth; claptrap. “Don't talk flannel!”
  5. noun (UK, obsolete) Synonym of flip (“hot mixture of beer, spirit, etc.”).
  6. adjective Made of flannel.
  7. verb (transitive) To rub with a flannel.
  8. verb (transitive) To wrap in flannel.
  9. verb (transitive) To flatter; to suck up to.
  10. verb (transitive, slang) To waffle or prevaricate.

Synonyms

flip fawn toady apple-polish bootlick bow and scrape brownnose butter up dickride duchess fawn over fellate honey around honey up kiss someone's ass kiss someone's ring kiss up kowtow lick someone's ass lick someone's balls washcloth washrag face cloth gabardine tweed white

Etymology

From Middle English flaunneol, from Anglo-Norman flanelle (compare Norman flianné), diminutive of Old French flaine, floene (“coarse wool”), from Gaulish, from Proto-Celtic *wlānos, *wlanā (“wool”) (compare Welsh gwlân, Breton gloan), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wĺ̥h₁neh₂. More at wool.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A soft, nappy, woolen cloth, of loose texture. Shak. Adam's flannel. (Bot.) See under Adam.

Etymology [F. flanelle, cf. OF. flaine a pillowcase, a mattress; fr. W. gwlanen flannel, fr. gwlan wool; prob. akin to E. wool. Cf. Wool.]

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