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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fug

/fʌɡ/ noun, verb

Forms fugs fugging fugged

  1. noun (countable, uncountable, informal, originally UK, dialectal and school slang) A heavy, musty, stuffy, or unpleasant atmosphere, usually in a crowded or poorly ventilated area.
  2. noun (countable, figurative) A state of chaos or confusion; a daze.
  3. verb To create a fug (“heavy, musty, stuffy, or unpleasant atmosphere”; etymology 1, noun sense 1) in (a place).
  4. verb To surround (someone or something) with a fug (etymology 1, noun sense 1).
  5. verb To put (someone or something) into a fug (“daze”; etymology 1, noun sense 2); to confuse, to daze.
  6. verb To create a fug (etymology 1, noun sense 1).
  7. verb Sometimes followed by up: to be surrounded by a fug (etymology 1, noun sense 1), for example, in an enclosed, stuffy place.
  8. noun (singular only) Preceded by the: used as an intensifier.
  9. noun Something of little value.
  10. noun A contemptible person.
  11. verb Used to express displeasure about (someone or something).
  12. verb To damage or destroy (something).
  13. verb To copulate with (someone).
  14. noun (African-American Vernacular, Baltimore, slang) A cigarette.

Etymology

The origin of the noun is unknown; originally dialectal and school slang, it is possibly derived from or related to one of the following:
* Fog (“thick cloud that forms near the ground”), possibly ultimately from Proto-Germanic *feukaną (“to blow; to be blown away”) and from Proto-Indo-European *pew-, *pewg-, *pow- (“to billow; to blow; to drift”).
* Fogo (“(UK, slang) stench”), a variant of hogo (“strong, unpleasant smell”), from haut gout, haut-goût (“(archaic) slight taint of decay, particularly in wild game meat, that used to be considered desirable; (obsolete) piquant or strong flavour”), from French hautgoût, from haut (“high”) + goût (“taste”).
* A back-formation from fuggy.
* A blend of funk (“foul or unpleasant smell”) + fog.
The verb is derived from the noun.

A variant of fuck.

A variant of fag (“(Australia, Ireland, UK) cigarette”).

Sources: Wiktionary — from the Wiktionary entry “fug”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details