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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horny

UK /ˈhɔːni/ · US /ˈhoɹni/ adjective, noun

Forms hornier horniest hornies

  1. adjective Hard or bony, like an animal's horn.
  2. adjective Having the hard consistency and pale colour of an animal's horn.
  3. adjective Having horns.
  4. adjective (slang) Sexually aroused.
  5. adjective (slang) Sexually exciting; arousing. “It's hard to find good fanart of this character because most of the drawings are super horny.”
  6. noun (slang, now rare) A policeman.
  7. noun (slang, Scotland, Australia) A cow.

Synonyms

callous coarse hardened rough ceratose horned horned up lustful lusty randy toey in heat thirsty ablaze amorous aroused buckish concupiscent corny desirous ruttish steamy turned on corneous hornlike

Etymology

From Middle English horny, equivalent to horn + -y. Compare German hornig. Compare also Dutch hoornachtig, Swedish hornaktig, Old English hyrniġ (“angular”). Piecewise doublet of corny.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Having horns or hornlike projections. Gay.
  2. adjective Composed or made of horn, or of a substance resembling horn; of the nature of horn. "The horny . . . coat of the eye." Ray.

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

Sanskrit

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