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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gob

UK /ɡɒb/ · US /ɡɑb/ noun, verb

Forms gobs gobbing gobbed gog

  1. noun (countable) A lump of soft or sticky material.
  2. noun (uncountable, slang) Saliva or phlegm. “He spat a big ball of gob on to the pavement.”
  3. noun (countable, US, regional) A whoopie pie.
  4. noun (in the plural, originally slang) A large amount. “gobs of money”
  5. verb To gather into a lump.
  6. verb (slang, ambitransitive) To spit, especially to spit phlegm.
  7. noun (UK, Commonwealth, Ireland, slang) The mouth. “He′s always stuffing his gob with fast food.”
  8. noun (uncountable, mining) Waste material in old mine workings, goaf.
  9. verb (mining, intransitive) To pack away waste material in order to support the walls of the mine.
  10. noun (US, military, slang) A sailor.

Synonyms

saliva spit sputum abundance battalion arseload assload bellyload boatload brimful busload bucketful bucketload butt-ton bumload buttload cartload crapflood crapload deal mariner seaman tar Jack-tar Jack old salt seafarer sea dog trap cakehole

Etymology

From Middle English gobbe (also Middle English gobet), from Old French gobet, gobe (“lump, mouthful”), from Transalpine Gaulish *gobbo- (“neb, muzzle”).

Probably from Irish gob, Scottish Gaelic gob (“beak, mouth”).

Back-formation from gobbing, or a specified use of Etymology 1, above.

Shortened from gobby or gobshite.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Same as Goaf.
  2. noun A little mass or collection; a small quantity; a mouthful. [Low]
  3. noun The mouth. [Prov. Eng.or Low] Wright.

Etymology [Cf. Goaf.]

Etymology [OF. gob morsel; cf. F. gobe, gobbe, a poisoned morsel, poison ball, gobet a piece swallowed, gober to swallow greedily and without tasting; cf. Gael. & Ir. gob mouth, snout, W. gwp a bird's head and neck. Cf. Gobble, Job, n.]

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