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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glib

/ɡlɪb/ adjective, verb, noun

Forms glibber glibbest glibs glibbing glibbed

  1. adjective Having a ready flow of words but lacking thought or understanding; superficial; shallow. “glib answers”
  2. adjective (archaic, literal) Smooth or slippery. “a sheet of glib ice”
  3. adjective Artfully persuasive but insincere in nature; smooth-talking, honey-tongued, silver-tongued. “a glib tongue”
  4. adjective Snarky or unserious in a disrespectful way.
  5. verb (transitive) To make smooth or slippery.
  6. noun (UK, slang, obsolete) A person's mouth or tongue.
  7. noun (historical) A mass of matted hair worn down over the eyes, formerly common in Ireland.
  8. verb (obsolete) To castrate; to geld; to emasculate.

Synonyms

facile suave dubber pat slick glib-tongued smooth-tongued

Etymology

A shortening of either obsolete English glibbery (“slippery”) or its source, Low German glibberig, glibberich (“slippery”) / Dutch glibberig (“slippery”).

Borrowed from Irish glib.

Compare Old English and dialectal English lib (“to castrate, geld”), dialectal Danish live, Low German and Old Dutch lubben.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Smooth; slippery; as, ice is glib. [Obs.]
  2. adjective Speaking or spoken smoothly and with flippant rapidity; fluent; voluble; as, a glib tongue; a glib speech.
  3. verb To make glib. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.
  4. noun A thick lock of hair, hanging over the eyes. [Obs.]

Etymology [Prob. fr. D. glibberen, glippen, to slide, glibberig, glipperig, glib, slippery.]

Etymology [Ir. & Gael. glib a lock of hair.]

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