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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hooker

UK /ˈhʊkə/ · US /ˈhʊkɚ/ noun, proper noun

Also a form of hookah

Forms hookers

  1. noun One who, or that which, hooks.
  2. noun (rugby) A player who hooks the ball out of the scrum with his foot.
  3. noun (cricket) A batsman or batswoman adept at or fond of playing hook shots.
  4. noun A crocheter.
  5. noun (informal, dated) Synonym of hook (“attention-grabbing element of a creative work”).
  6. noun (archaic, thieves' cant) A thief who uses a pole with a hook on the end to steal goods.
  7. noun (US, slang) A prostitute.
  8. noun (slang, dated, 1920s to 1940s) An imprecise measure of alcoholic drink; a "slug" (of gin), or an overlarge gulp.
  9. noun A small fishing boat.
  10. noun (nautical, slang, derogatory) Any antiquated craft.
  11. proper noun A surname originating as an occupation for a maker of hooks.
  12. proper noun An unincorporated community in Tehama County, California.
  13. proper noun An unincorporated community in Dade County, Georgia.
  14. proper noun An unincorporated community in Clay County, Kentucky.
  15. proper noun A ghost town in Pulaski County, Missouri.
  16. proper noun Two townships in Nebraska, in Dixon County and Gage County.
  17. proper noun An unincorporated community in Fairfield County, Ohio.
  18. proper noun A small city in Texas County, Oklahoma.

Synonyms

hook angler nuthook Galway Galway hooker Joseph Hooker Fighting Joe Hooker Richard Hooker streetwalker street girl hustler floozy floozie slattern

Etymology

Unknown. The "prostitute" sense is the subject of a folk etymology connecting it to General Hooker of the American Civil War, but the earliest known use dates to 1835, decades before the war. Less implausibly, it has also been connected to a coastal feature called a hook (“A spit or narrow cape of sand or gravel turned landward at the outer end, such as Sandy Hook in New Jersey, Red Hook in New York”) in the ports of New York and Baltimore. Carefully learned inference is not conclusive. See this essay, pp 105ff.

From Dutch hoeker, an alteration of Middle Dutch hoecboot, from hoec + boot.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who, or that which, hooks.
  2. noun (a) A Dutch vessel with two masts.

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