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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gargle

UK /ˈɡɑːɡəl/ · US /ˈɡɑɹɡəl/ verb, noun

Forms gargles gargling gargled

  1. verb (intransitive) To clean one's mouth by holding water or some other liquid in the back of the mouth and blowing air out from the lungs.
  2. verb (intransitive) To make a sound like the one made while gargling.
  3. verb (transitive) To clean a specific part of the body by gargling (almost always throat or mouth).
  4. verb (transitive) To use (a liquid) for purposes of cleaning one's mouth or throat by gargling. “Every morning he gargled a little cheap Scotch.”
  5. verb (slang, transitive) To perform oral sex on (a person or genitals).
  6. noun A liquid used for gargling.
  7. noun (countable) The sound or act of gargling.
  8. noun (slang, countable, uncountable) Lager or other alcoholic drink.

Synonyms

mouthwash rinse

Etymology

From French gargouiller (“to gargle”), from Old French gargouille, gargole (“gutter, throat”). Compare gargoyle and Spanish garganta. Displaced non-native Middle English gargargisen (“to gargle”) from Latin, and native Old English swillan (“to gargle”) (ancestor of English swill).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun See Gargoyle.
  2. verb To wash or rinse, as the mouth or throat, particular the latter, agitating the liquid (water or a medicinal preparation) by an expulsion of air from the lungs.
  3. verb To warble; to sing as if gargling [Obs.] Waller.
  4. noun A liquid, as water or some medicated preparation, used to cleanse the mouth and throat, especially for a medical effect.

Etymology [F. gargouiller to dabble, paddle, gargle. Cf. Gargoyle, Gurgle.]

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

Sanskrit

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