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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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gyp

/d͡ʒɪp/ noun, verb

Forms gyps gypping gypped gip jip

  1. noun (derogatory, sometimes offensive) A cheat or swindle; a rip-off. “Why do we have to buy this new edition of the textbook when there’s almost no difference between it and the previous one? What a gyp!”
  2. noun Synonym of gypsy (“contra dance step”).
  3. verb (derogatory, sometimes offensive) To cheat or swindle. “The cab driver gypped me out of ten bucks by taking the longer route.”
  4. noun (Cambridge University, Durham University, historical) A domestic servant, generally male, who would attend upon (usually several) students, brushing their clothes, carrying parcels, waiting at parties and other tasks; generally equivalent to a scout in the historical sense at Oxford University or a skip at Trinity College, Dublin.
  5. noun (Cambridge University, Durham University) The room in which such college servants work.
  6. noun (Cambridge University, Durham University) A small kitchen for use by college students.
  7. noun Gypsophila.
  8. noun Pain or discomfort. “My back's giving me gyp.”

Synonyms

gypsy bunco bunco game bunko bunko game con confidence trick confidence game con game hustle sting flimflam victimize swindle rook goldbrick nobble diddle defraud scam mulct gip hornswoggle short-change

Etymology

Perhaps from the term gypsy (“Roma”), due to a stereotype of the Roma as swindlers. Compare jew (“defraud”), from Jew, and welsh (“swindle by defaulting on a debt”), from Welsh.
Could also be derived from dupe, with the same pattern (yod coalescence) as idiot becomes eejit in Scottish English.

Perhaps the same as Etymology 1. An earlier theory derived the term from Ancient Greek γύψ (gúps, “vulture”) (/ɡýps/; compare Greek γύπας (gýpas) /ˈʝi.pas/), "in reference to thievish habits of the servants" (and then derived Etymology 1 thence), but this does not explain the pronunciation.

Shortening.

Perhaps from gee up.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A college servant; --so called in Cambridge, England; at Oxford called a scout. [Cant]

Etymology [Said to be a sportive application of Gr. Defn: A college servant; -- so called in Cambridge, England; at Oxford called a scout. [Cant]

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