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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hunch

/hʌnt͡ʃ/ noun, verb

Forms hunches hunching hunched

  1. noun A hump; a protuberance.
  2. noun A stooped or curled posture; a slouch. “The old man walked with a hunch.”
  3. noun A theory, idea, or guess; an intuitive impression that something will happen. “I have a hunch they'll find a way to solve the problem.”
  4. noun A hunk; a lump; a thick piece. “a hunch of bread”
  5. noun A push or thrust, as with the elbow.
  6. verb (intransitive) To bend the top of one's body forward while raising one's shoulders. “Don't hunch over your computer if you want to avoid neck problems.”
  7. verb (transitive) To raise (one's shoulders) (while lowering one's head or bending the top of one's body forward); to curve (one's body) forward (sometimes followed by up). “They stood outside the door hunching themselves against the rain and puffing on their cigarettes.”
  8. verb (intransitive) To walk (somewhere) while hunching one's shoulders.
  9. verb (transitive) To thrust a hump or protuberance out of (something); to crook, as the back.
  10. verb (transitive) To push or jostle with the elbow; to push or thrust against (someone).
  11. verb (intransitive, colloquial) To have a hunch, or make an intuitive guess.

Synonyms

inkling hint clue slouch stoop lean elbow nudge intuition suspicion hump hunch forward hunch over

Etymology

Assibilated variant of hunk, of uncertain origin.
Alternatively, a derivative of hump, via an earlier Middle English *hunche, *humpchin, from *hump + -chin, -chen (diminutive suffix), equivalent to hump + -kin. In the sense of an intuitive impression, said to be from the old gambling superstition that it brings luck to touch the hump of a hunchback.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A hump; a protuberance.
  2. noun A lump; a thick piece; as, a hunch of bread.
  3. verb To push or jostle with the elbow; to push or thrust suddenly.
  4. verb To thrust out a hump or protuberance; to crook, as the back.

Etymology [Perh. akin to huckle; cf. hump, hunch, bunch, hunk.]

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