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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kip

/kɪp/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms kips kipping kipped kipp kippe kyppe

  1. noun The untanned hide of a young or small beast, such as a calf, lamb, or young goat.
  2. noun A bundle or set of such hides.
  3. noun (obsolete) A unit of count for skins, 30 for lamb and 50 for goat.
  4. noun The leather made from such hide.
  5. noun (informal, chiefly UK, Ireland) A place to sleep; a rooming house; a bed.
  6. noun (informal, chiefly UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) Sleep, snooze, nap, forty winks, doze. “I’m just going for my afternoon kip.”
  7. noun (informal, chiefly UK, Ireland) A very untidy house or room.
  8. noun (informal, chiefly UK, Ireland, dated) A brothel.
  9. noun (Ireland) A job.
  10. verb (informal, chiefly UK) To sleep; often with the connotation of a temporary or charitable situation, or one borne out of necessity. “Don’t worry, I’ll kip on the sofabed.”
  11. verb (transitive, dialectal, Scotland, Northern England) To snatch; take up hastily; filch
  12. verb (intransitive, obsolete) To hold or keep (together)
  13. verb (intransitive, dialectal, Northern England) To conduct oneself; act
  14. noun A unit of force equal to 1000 pounds-force (lbf) (4.44822 kilonewtons or 4448.22 newtons); occasionally called the kilopound.
  15. noun A unit of weight, used, for example, to calculate shipping charges, equal to half a US ton, or 1000 pounds.
  16. noun (rare, nonstandard) A unit of mass equal to 1000 avoirdupois pounds.
  17. noun The unit of currency in Laos, divided into 100 att, symbol ₭, abbreviation LAK.
  18. noun (Australia, games, two-up) A piece of flat wood used to throw the coins in a game of two-up.
  19. noun (gymnastics) A basic skill or maneuver in artistic gymnastics on the uneven bars, parallel bars, high bar and still rings used, for example, as a way of mounting the bar in a front support position, or achieving a handstand from a hanging position. In its basic form, the legs are swung forward and upward by bending the hips, then suddenly down again, which gives the upward impulse to the body.
  20. noun (Scotland) A sharp-pointed hill; a projecting point, as on a hill.

Synonyms

crash upstart sleep slumber log Z's catch some Z's

Etymology

1325–75, Middle English kipp, from Middle Dutch kip, from Middle Low German kip (“pack, bundle of hides”).

1760–70, probably related to Danish kippe (“dive, hovel, cheap inn”) and Middle Low German kiffe (“hovel”). From the same distant Germanic root as cove.

From Middle English kippen, from Old Norse kippa (“to pull; snatch”) or Middle Dutch kippen (“to grasp, seize, catch”). Cognate with Norwegian kippe (“to snatch”), Swedish kippa (“to snatch; jerk”); Dutch kippen (“to seize; catch”). Perhaps conflated with some senses of Middle English kepen (“to keep, observe, guard, take possession of, snatch”) (see keep).

1910–15, Americanism, abbreviated from kilo + pound.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The hide of a young or small beef creature, or leather made from it; kipskin. Kip leather. See Kipskin.

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