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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grub

/ɡɹʌb/ noun, verb

Forms grubs grubbing grubbed grob

  1. noun (countable) An insect, especially a beetle, at an immature stage of its life cycle.
  2. noun (uncountable, slang) Food. “pub grub”
  3. noun (Australia, slang) A dirty person.
  4. noun (Australia, slang) A despicable person; a lowlife.
  5. noun (obsolete) A short, thick man; a dwarf.
  6. verb (transitive) To scavenge or in some way scrounge, typically for food.
  7. verb (ambitransitive) To dig; to dig up by the roots; to root out by digging; often followed by up. “to grub up trees, rushes, or sedge”
  8. verb (slang, dated, transitive) To supply with food.
  9. verb (slang, dated) To eat.

Synonyms

larva aliment bait belly-timber chow comestibles cuisine eatables eats edibles feed fodder foodstuffs food kai meals meat munchable nibbles nosebag chuck mooch bum cadge sponge

Etymology

From Middle English grubben, grobben, from Old English *grubbian, from Proto-West Germanic *grubb-, from Proto-Germanic *grubb- (compare Middle Dutch grobben (“to scrape, scramble, grab”), Old High German grubilōn (“to dig, search”), German grübeln (“to meditate, ponder”)), from Proto-Germanic *grub- (“to dig”) (see *grabaną).
The noun sense of "larva" is from Middle English grub, grubbe, grobbe, crubbe and may derive from the notion of "digging insect" from the verb above, or from the uncertainly related Middle English grub (“dwarfish fellow”). Compare West Frisian krobbe (“beetle”). The slang sense of "food" is first recorded 1659, and has been linked with birds eating grubs or with bub (“drink”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To dig in or under the ground, generally for an object that is difficult to reach or extricate; to be occupied in digging.
  2. verb To drudge; to do menial work. Richardson.
  3. verb To dig; to dig up by the roots; to root out by digging; --followed by up; as, to grub up trees, rushes, or sedge.
  4. verb To supply with food. [Slang] Dickens.

Etymology [OE. grubbin., cf. E. grab, grope.]

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

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “grub” (best matches first).