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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kink

/ˈkɪŋk/ verb, noun

Forms kinks kinking kinked chink k1nk k!nk k/nk k*nk

  1. verb To laugh loudly.
  2. verb To gasp for breath as in a severe fit of coughing.
  3. noun (Scotland, dialect) A convulsive fit of coughing or laughter; a sonorous indraft of breath; a whoop; a gasp of breath caused by laughing, coughing, or crying.
  4. noun A tight curl, twist, or bend in a length of thin material, hair etc. “We couldn't get enough water to put out the fire because of a kink in the hose.”
  5. noun A difficulty or flaw that is likely to impede operation, as in a plan or system. “They had planned to open another shop downtown, but their plan had a few kinks.”
  6. noun An unreasonable notion; a crotchet; a whim; a caprice.
  7. noun (countable, uncountable) Peculiarity or deviation in sexual behaviour or taste.
  8. noun A person with peculiar sexual tastes.
  9. noun Any sexual preference outside normal or expected norms.
  10. noun (mathematics) A positive 1-soliton solution to the sine-Gordon equation.
  11. verb (transitive) To form a kink or twist.
  12. verb (intransitive) To be formed into a kink or twist.

Synonyms

paraphilia kinkster crick rick wrick twist twirl crimp crape frizzle frizz kink up curl curve

Antonyms

normophilia

Etymology

From Middle English kinken, kynken, from Old English *cincian (attested in cincung), from Proto-West Germanic *kinkōn, from Proto-Germanic *kinkōną (“to laugh”), from Proto-Indo-European *gang- (“to mock, jeer, deride”), related to Old English canc (“jeering, scorn, derision”). Cognate with Dutch kinken (“to kink, cough”).

From Dutch kink (“a twist or curl in a rope”), from Proto-Germanic *kenk-, *keng- (“to bend, turn”), from Proto-Indo-European *gengʰ- (“to turn, wind, braid, weave”). Compare Saterland Frisian Kink (“twist or entanglement in a rope or cord”), Middle Low German kinke (“spiral screw, coil”), Old Norse kikna (“to bend backwards, sink at the knee”), Icelandic kengur (“a bend or bight; a metal crook”). Probably related to kick.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A twist or loop in a rope or thread, caused by a spontaneous doubling or winding upon itself; a close loop or curl; a doubling in a cord.
  2. noun An unreasonable notion; a crotchet; a whim; a caprice. [Colloq.]
  3. verb To wind into a kink; to knot or twist spontaneously upon itself, as a rope or thread.
  4. noun A fit of coughing; also, a convulsive fit of laughter. [Scot.]

Etymology [D. kink a bend or turn, or Sw. kink.]

Etymology [Cf. Chincough, Kink-haust.]

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