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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flirt

UK /flɜːt/ · US /flɚt/ noun, verb, adjective, proper noun

Forms flirts flirting flirted

  1. noun A sudden jerk; a quick throw or cast; a darting motion
  2. noun Someone who flirts a lot or enjoys flirting; a flirtatious person.
  3. noun An act of flirting.
  4. noun A tentative or brief, passing engagement with something.
  5. noun (dialectal) A brief shower (of rain or snow).
  6. noun (with "the") Russula vesca, an edible woodland mushroom.
  7. verb (transitive) To throw (something) with a jerk or sudden movement; to fling. “They flirt water in each other's faces.”
  8. verb (archaic, intransitive) To jeer at; to mock.
  9. verb (intransitive) To dart about; to move with quick, jerky motions.
  10. verb (transitive) To blurt out.
  11. verb (intransitive) To play at courtship; to talk with light affection, to imply sexual attraction in a playful (especially conversational) way.
  12. verb (intransitive) To experiment, or tentatively engage, with; to become involved in passing with.
  13. adjective Flirtatious.
  14. proper noun (virology) A subvariant of the Omicron variant, scientifically known as KP.2 and KP.1.1.

Synonyms

charm come on to coquet dally fool around gallivant get fresh hit on make a move on make an advance make eyes at play the field put the make on tease coquette vamp vamper minx prickteaser flirting flirtation coquetry dalliance toying chat up butterfly romance philander mash toy

Antonyms

belittle cockblock

Etymology

1553, from the merger of Early Modern English flirt (“to flick”), flurt (“to mock, jibe, scorn”), and flirt, flurt (“a giddy girl”). Of obscure origin and relation. Apparently related to similar words in Germanic, all of apparently onomatopoeic origin, compare Low German flirt (“a flick of the fingers, a light blow”), Low German flirtje (“a giddy girl”), Low German flirtje (“a flirt”), German Flittchen (“a flirt; tart; hussy”), Norwegian flira (“to giggle, titter”). Compare also Early Modern English jillflirt, gillian flirt, and flirt-gill (“a flirt”), and Scots flird (“a trifling", also, "to jibe, jeer at, talk idly, flirt, flaunt”), which is perhaps from Middle English flerd (“mockery, fraud, deception”), from Old English fleard (“nonsense, vanity, folly, deception”); potentially related to Icelandic flærð (“trickiness, deceit”), Swedish flärd (“vanity, frivolity, flamboyance”), Dutch flard (“tatter, shred”). See flird.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To throw with a jerk or quick effort; to fling suddenly; as, they flirt water in each other's faces; he flirted a glove, or a handkerchief.
  2. verb To toss or throw about; to move playfully to and fro; as, to flirt a fan.
  3. verb To run and dart about; to act with giddiness, or from a desire to attract notice; especially, to play the coquette; to play at courtship; to coquet; as, they flirt with the young men.
  4. verb To utter contemptious language, with an air of disdain; to jeer or gibe. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

Etymology [Cf. AS. fleard trifle, folly, fleardian to trifle.]

Etymology [Cf. LG. flirtje, G. flirtchen. See Flirt, v. t.]

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