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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gobble

UK /ˈɡɒbl̩/ · US /ˈɡɑbl̩/ verb, noun, proper noun

Forms gobbles gobbling gobbled

  1. verb To eat hastily or greedily; to scoff or scarf (often used with up) “He gobbled four hot dogs in three minutes.”
  2. noun (Scotland, slang, vulgar) Fellatio; a blowjob.
  3. noun (rare) An act of eating hastily or greedily.
  4. noun (golf) A rapid straight putt so strongly played that, if the ball had not gone into the hole, it would have gone a long way past.
  5. verb (ambitransitive) Of a turkey, to make its characteristic vocalisation; also, used of certain other birds.
  6. verb (ambitransitive) To make the sound of a turkey.
  7. noun The sound of a turkey; or, a similar vocalisation of another bird.
  8. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

hork scarf scoff bolt

Etymology

From Middle English gobben (“to drink or swallow greedily”), of uncertain origin + -le (frequentative suffix). Middle English gobben is perhaps an alteration of Middle English globben (“to gulp down”), related to English gulpen (“to gulp”). However, compare also French gober.

Onomatopoetic of the sound of a turkey.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To swallow or eat greedily or hastily; to gulp.
  2. verb To utter (a sound) like a turkey cock.
  3. verb To eat greedily.
  4. verb To make a noise like that of a turkey cock. Prior.

Etymology [Freq. of 2d gob.]

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