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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huff

/hʌf/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms huffs huffing huffed Houff

  1. noun A heavy breath; a grunt or sigh. “With a huff, he lifted the box onto the back of the truck.”
  2. noun (figurative) A condition of anger, annoyance, disgust, etc. “in a huff”
  3. noun (obsolete) One swelled with a false sense of importance or value; a boaster.
  4. noun (draughts) The act of removing an opponent's piece as a forfeit for deliberately not taking a piece (often signalled by blowing on it).
  5. verb (intransitive) To breathe heavily. “The run left him huffing and puffing.”
  6. verb (intransitive) To say in a huffy manner.
  7. verb (intransitive) To enlarge; to swell up. “Bread huffs.”
  8. verb (intransitive) To bluster or swell with anger, arrogance, or pride; to storm; to take offense.
  9. verb (transitive) To treat with arrogance and insolence; to chide or rebuke rudely; to bully, to hector.
  10. verb (transitive, archaic) To vex; to offend.
  11. verb (transitive) To inhale psychoactive inhalants.
  12. verb (transitive, draughts) To remove an opponent's piece as a forfeit for deliberately not taking a piece (often signalled by blowing on it).
  13. proper noun A surname.
  14. proper noun A township in Spencer County, Indiana, named after Aquilia Huff.
  15. proper noun An unincorporated community in Edmonson County, Kentucky, named for the Huff family.
  16. proper noun An unincorporated community in Franklin County, Missouri, probably named after settler Andrew Huff.
  17. proper noun An unincorporated community in Morton County, North Dakota, near the Huff Archeological Site.
  18. proper noun A ghost town in Archer County, Texas, named after Charles C. Huff.

Synonyms

miff seeing red snort puff chuff

Etymology

Probably an altered spelling of earlier *hough, represented by Scots hech (“to breathe hard, pant”). Compare also German hauchen (“to breathe”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To swell; to enlarge; to puff up; as, huffed up with air. Grew.
  2. verb To treat with insolence and arrogance; to chide or rebuke with insolence; to hector; to bully.
  3. verb To enlarge; to swell up; as, bread huffs.
  4. verb To bluster or swell with anger, pride, or arrogance; to storm; to take offense.

Etymology [Cf. OE. hoove to puff up, blow; prob. of imitative origin.]

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