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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junk

/d͡ʒʌŋk/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms junks junking junked

  1. noun Miscellaneous items of little value, especially discarded or unwanted items. “This shed is full of junk – will you help me sort it out?”
  2. noun (attributive) Material or resources of poor quality or low value, especially resources that lack commercial value. “junk food”
  3. noun Nonsense; gibberish. “The student put down junk for answers just to finish his homework more quickly.”
  4. noun (slang) Any narcotic drug, especially heroin.
  5. noun (slang) The genitalia, especially of a male.
  6. noun (nautical) Salt beef.
  7. noun Pieces of old cable or cordage, used for making gaskets, mats, swabs, etc., and when picked to pieces, forming oakum for filling the seams of ships.
  8. noun (dated, countable) A fragment of any solid substance; a thick piece; a chunk.
  9. verb (transitive, informal) To throw away.
  10. verb (transitive, informal) To find something for very little money (meaning derived from the term junkshop) “(On Facebook, a record collector wrote:) "The newest addition to my Annette Hanshaw collection, I junked this beautiful flawless E-copy within walking distance from my house."”
  11. verb (transitive, intransitive, informal) To consume junk food, mainly at a fast-food restaurant. “Let's just junk some burgers at McDonald's.”
  12. noun (nautical) A Chinese sailing vessel.
  13. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

clutter cultch crap debris dreck drek garbage gash litter pelf piece of crap piece of garbage piece of shit pile of crap pile of shit piece of trash rubbish refuse roughage service item dust rubble detritus trash scrap

Etymology

From earlier meaning "old refuse from boats and ships", from Middle English junk, jounke, jonk, joynk (“an old cable or rope”, nautical term), sometimes cut into bits and used as caulking; of uncertain origin; perhaps related to join, joint, juncture. Often compared to Middle English junk, jonk, jonke, junck (“a rush; basket made of rushes”), from Old French jonc, from Latin iuncus (“rush, reed”); however, the Oxford English Dictionary finds "no evidence of connexion".

From Portuguese junco with reinforcement from Dutch jonk, from Arabic جُنْك (junk), from Malay jong, جوڠ, from Javanese ꦗꦺꦴꦁ (jong), from Old Javanese joṅ (“seagoing ship”), probably from Proto-Mon-Khmer *d₂luuŋ ~ *d₂luŋ ~ *d₂luəŋ ~ *d₂ləŋ (“boat”). Doublet of djong.

South German surname, spelling variant of Jung.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A fragment of any solid substance; a thick piece. See Chunk.
  2. noun Pieces of old cable or old cordage, used for making gaskets, mats, swabs, etc., and when picked to pieces, forming oakum for filling the seams of ships.
  3. noun Old iron, or other metal, glass, paper, etc., bought and sold by junk dealers.
  4. noun A large vessel, without keel or prominent stem, and with huge masts in one piece, used by the Chinese, Japanese, Siamese, Malays, etc., in navigating their waters.

Etymology [Pg. junco junk, rush, L. juncus a bulrush, of which ropes were made in early ages. Cf. Junket.]

Etymology [Pg. junco; cf. Jav. & Malay jong, ajong, Chin. chwan.]

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