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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gee

/d͡ʒiː/ interjection, verb, noun, proper noun

Forms gees geeing geed

  1. interjection (somewhat dated) A general exclamation of surprise or frustration. “Gee, I didn't know that!”
  2. verb (intransitive) Of a horse, pack animal, etc.: to move forward; go faster; or turn in a direction away from the driver, typically to the right. “This horse won’t gee when I tell him to.”
  3. verb (transitive) To cause an animal to move in this way. “You may need to walk up to the front of the pack and physically gee the lead dog.”
  4. verb (UK, dialect, obsolete) To agree; to harmonize.
  5. noun A gee-gee, a horse.
  6. interjection A command to a horse, pack animal, etc., which may variously mean “move forward”, “go faster”, or “turn to the right”. “Mush, huskies. Now, gee! Gee!”
  7. noun The name of the Latin script letter G/g. “One branch of English society drops its initial aitches, and another branch ignores its terminal gees.”
  8. noun (US, slang) A guy.
  9. noun (Ireland, slang) Vagina, vulva.
  10. verb To suit or fit.
  11. verb (obsolete, dialect) To give.
  12. proper noun A surname.
  13. proper noun (rare) A male given name.
  14. proper noun An unincorporated community in Anderson County, Kentucky, United States.
  15. proper noun A ghost town in Pushmataha County, Oklahoma, United States.

Synonyms

adzooks ay caramba mirabile dictu chihuahua begorra bleeding heck bleeding Nora bless my heart bless my soul bless us blige blimey bloody hell bloody Nora blow me blow me backwards blow me down blow me over blow me pink g g-force

Etymology

A shortening of Jesus, perhaps as in the oath by Jesus.

Unknown.

From Middle English, from Old English ge, from Latin ge (the name of the letter G).

Unknown. Possibly from gowl (“vagina, vulva”), a slang term in Ireland. Compare Irish gabhal (“fork, crotch”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To agree; to harmonize. [Colloq. or Prov. Eng.] Forby.
  2. verb To turn to the off side, or from the driver (i.e., in the United States, to the right side); --said of cattle, or a team; used most frequently in the imperative, often with off, by drivers of oxen, in directing their teams, and opposed to haw, or hoi. [Written also jee.]
  3. verb To cause (a team) to turn to the off side, or from the driver.

Etymology [Cf. G. jü, interj., used in calling to a horse, It. giò, F. dia, used to turn a horse to the left.]

Etymology [See Gee to turn.]

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