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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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juke

/d͡ʒuːk/ noun, verb

Also a form of jook

Forms jukes juking juked jook jugg

  1. noun (Southern US, countable) A roadside cafe or bar, especially one with dancing and sometimes prostitution.
  2. noun (uncountable, music) A genre of electronic music native to Chicago, noted for its fast, abstract rhythms; see footwork.
  3. verb To play dance music, or to dance, in a juke.
  4. verb To hit.
  5. verb To stab.
  6. verb To thrust with the pelvis, in particular for sexual intercourse.
  7. verb (intransitive) To deceive or outmaneuver someone using a feint, especially in American football or soccer.
  8. verb (transitive) To deceive or outmaneuver, using a feint.
  9. verb (intransitive) To bend the neck; to bow or duck the head.
  10. verb (transitive) To manipulate deceptively.
  11. verb (transitive) To interrupt a conversation with an unrelated topic. “Smith likes juking religion when talking with his family at dinner.”
  12. noun (sports) A feint.
  13. noun The neck of a bird.

Synonyms

barrelhouse juke house juke joint chef chib ching chive enthrill foin gore gride jab job kebab knifecrime lancinate pigstick pink poach run through jook jook joint jook house fake

Etymology

From Gullah juke, jook, joog (“wicked, disorderly”) (compare Wolof and Bambara dzug (“unsavory”)).

Borrowed from Jamaican Creole jook.

Uncertain. Perhaps from Scots jouk, jowk, juke (“to elude, cheat; duck, skulk; bob, dodge”), palatalized variants of Scots deuk, douk, dowk (“to duck”). More at duck (verb).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To bend the neck; to bow or duck the head. [Written also jook and jouk.]
  2. noun The neck of a bird. [Prov. Eng.]
  3. verb To perch on anything, as birds do. [Obs.]
  4. verb A pseudonym used to designate the descendants of two sisters, the "Jukes" sisters, whose husbands were sons of a backwoodsman of Dutch descent. They lived in the State of New York, and their history was investigated by R. L. Dugdale as an example of the inheritance of criminal and immoral tendencies, disease, and pauperism. Sixty per cent of those traced showed, degeneracy, and they are estimated to have cost society $1,308,000 in 75 years.

Etymology [from Scottish jouk to bow.]

Etymology [F. juc a roost, perch, jucher to roost, to perch.]

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