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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guzzle

/ˈɡʌzəl/ verb, noun

Forms guzzles guzzling guzzled guzle guzzel

  1. verb (transitive) To drink or eat quickly, voraciously, or to excess; to gulp down; to swallow greedily, continually, or with gusto.
  2. verb (intransitive, dated) To consume alcoholic beverages, especially frequently or habitually.
  3. verb (transitive, by extension) To consume anything quickly, greedily, or to excess, as if with insatiable thirst; often said of gas-powered vehicles. “This car just guzzles petrol.”
  4. verb (intransitive, rare) To flow copiously; to spray out. “Blood guzzled from the wound.”
  5. noun (dated, uncountable) Drink; intoxicating liquor.
  6. noun (dated) A drinking bout; a debauch.
  7. noun (dated) An insatiable thing or person.
  8. noun (obsolete, UK, provincial) A drain or ditch; a gutter; sometimes, a small stream. Also called guzzen.
  9. noun The throat.

Synonyms

swig swill

Etymology

Probably imitative of the sound of drinking eagerly; or from Old French gouziller, gosillier (“to pass through the throat”), from gosier (“throat”), and akin to Italian gozzo (“throat; a bird's crop”). First attested in 1576.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To swallow liquor greedily; to drink much or frequently.
  2. verb To swallow much or often; to swallow with immoderate gust; to drink greedily or continually; as, one who guzzles beer. Dryden.
  3. noun An insatiable thing or person.

Etymology [OP. gosillier, prob. orig., to pass through the throat; akin to F. gosier throat; cf. It. gozzo a bird's crop.]

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