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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gash

/ɡæʃ/ noun, verb, adjective, proper noun

Forms gashes gashing gashed garsh

  1. noun A deep cut. “Unwittingly I slashed a gushing gash in my hand with a switchblade.”
  2. noun (slang, vulgar) A vulva.
  3. noun (slang, uncountable, offensive, derogatory) A woman.
  4. verb To make a deep, long cut; to slash. “My leg got gashed.”
  5. noun (chiefly UK, Antarctica) Rubbish, particularly on board a ship or aircraft.
  6. noun (UK, now vulgar) Nonsense.
  7. noun (UK, now vulgar) Something low quality.
  8. noun Unused film or sound during film editing.
  9. noun Poor-quality beer, usually watered down.
  10. adjective (now vulgar) Of poor quality; makeshift; improvised; temporary; substituted.
  11. adjective (dated, chiefly military) Spare, extra.
  12. adjective (UK, Scotland, dialect) ghastly; hideous
  13. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

gullick incision slash crack ladybits quim axe wound badly packed kebab bearded clam beaver beef curtains burger chocha clam cooch coochie coochy cookie coot cooter cut slice

Etymology

Alteration of older garsh, from Middle English garsen, from Old French garser, jarsier (Modern French gercer), from Vulgar Latin *charaxāre, from Ancient Greek χαρακτήρ (kharaktḗr, “engraver”).

From French gâcher (“to waste, to mess up”) or gâchis (“waste, a mess”), likely borrowed into English by ships' crews in the 19th century. Became increasingly vulgar by association with Etymology 1.

From ghastful, by association with gash.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To make a gash, or long, deep incision in; --applied chiefly to incisions in flesh.
  2. noun A deep and long cut; an incision of considerable length and depth, particularly in flesh.

Etymology [For older garth or garse, OF. garser to scarify, F. gercer to chap, perh. from an assumed LL. carptiare, fr. L. carpere, carptum, to pluck, separate into parts; cf. LL. carptare to wound. Cf. Carpet.]

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