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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flaunt

UK /flɔːnt/ · US /flɑnt/ verb, noun

Forms flaunts flaunting flaunted flant

  1. verb (intransitive, archaic, of leaves or flags) To wave or flutter smartly in the wind.
  2. verb (transitive) To parade, display with ostentation. “She’s always flaunting her designer clothes.”
  3. verb (intransitive, archaic or literary) To show off, as with flashy clothing.
  4. noun (obsolete) Anything displayed for show.
  5. verb (proscribed) To flout.

Synonyms

vaunt ostentate preen swagger aura farm boulevardier cut a wide swath cut it fat cut round exhibitionize figure away flamboast flex floss fluff one's feathers gallery high-side let one's nuts hang ostent showboat flash show off swank

Etymology

Of North Germanic origin. Perhaps related to Norwegian flanta (“to show off, wander about”), Icelandic flana (“to rush about, act rashly or heedlessly”) and then also to French flâner (“to wander around, loiter”).
Alternatively, it could be related to Swedish flankt (“loosely, flutteringly”) (compare English flaunt-a-flaunt), from flanka (“waver, hang and wave about, ramble”), a nasalised variant of flakka (“to waver”), related to Middle English flacken (“to move to and fro, flutter, palpitate”). See flack.

By confusion with flout.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To throw or spread out; to flutter; to move ostentatiously; as, a flaunting show.
  2. verb To display ostentatiously; to make an impudent show of.
  3. noun Anything displayed for show. [Obs.]

Etymology [Cf. dial. G. flandern to flutter, wave; perh. akin to E. flatter, flutter.]

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