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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hustle

/ˈhʌsəl/ verb, noun

Forms hustles hustling hustled

  1. verb To push someone roughly; to crowd; to jostle.
  2. verb (intransitive) To rush or hurry. “I'll have to hustle to get there on time.”
  3. verb (transitive) To bundle; to stow something quickly.
  4. verb (transitive) To con, swindle, or deceive, especially financially. “The guy tried to hustle me into buying into a bogus real estate deal.”
  5. verb To play deliberately badly at a game or sport in an attempt to encourage players to challenge one.
  6. verb (informal) To obtain by illicit or forceful action.
  7. verb (informal) To sell sex; to work as a pimp.
  8. verb (informal) To be a prostitute; to exchange use of one's body for sexual purposes for money.
  9. noun A state of busy activity.
  10. noun A propensity to work hard and get things done; ability to hustle.
  11. noun (preceded by a definite article) A type of disco dance, commonly danced to the Van McCoy song The Hustle (1975).
  12. noun A scam or swindle.
  13. noun (prison slang) An activity, such as prostitution or reselling stolen items, that a prisoner uses to earn money in prison.
  14. noun (slang) An act of prostitution.
  15. noun (informal) An activity, especially to achieve a desired goal or make money. “Everybody's got a hustle.”

Synonyms

fly defraud pimp sell one's body labor make tracks swindle turn tricks bunco bunco game bunko bunko game con confidence trick confidence game con game gyp sting flimflam bustle flurry ado fuss stir bustle about pluck roll

Etymology

From Dutch husselen or by metathesis from Dutch hutselen (“to shake up”), a frequentative of hutsen (“to stir, to move something (back and forth)”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To shake together in confusion; to push, jostle, or crowd rudely; to handle roughly; as, to hustle a person out of a room.
  2. verb To push or crows; to force one's way; to move hustily and with confusion; a hurry.

Etymology [D. hustelen to shake, fr. husten to shake. Cf. Hotchpotch.]

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