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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knacker

UK /ˈnakə/ · US /ˈnækɚ/ noun, verb

Forms knackers knackering knackered

  1. noun One who makes knickknacks, toys, etc.
  2. noun One of two or more pieces of bone or wood held loosely between the fingers, and struck together by moving the hand.
  3. noun (archaic) A harnessmaker or saddlemaker; their place of business (e.g., saddlery).
  4. noun One who slaughters and (especially) renders worn-out livestock (especially horses) and sells their flesh, bones and hides.
  5. noun One who dismantles old ships, houses, etc. and sells their components.
  6. noun (Ireland, UK, ethnic slur, offensive) An itinerant person, especially one of Irish Traveller heritage.
  7. noun (Ireland, offensive, slang) A person of lower social class; a chav, skanger, or similar.
  8. noun (UK, slang, vulgar, chiefly in the plural) A testicle.
  9. verb (UK, slang, transitive) To tire out, exhaust; to beat up and use up (something), leaving it worn out and damaged. “Carrying that giant statue up those stairs completely knackered me.”
  10. verb (UK, slang, transitive) To reprimand.

Synonyms

toymaker clapper slaughterer slaughterman salvager salvor scrapper wrecker breaker shipbreaker car breaker dobber scobe adlay bam Barry boy bazza benny bogan bopper

Etymology

From Old Norse hnak (“saddle”) (whence Icelandic hnakkur (“saddle”)).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who makes knickknacks, toys, etc. Mortimer.
  2. noun One of two or more pieces of bone or wood held loosely between the fingers, and struck together by moving the hand; --called also clapper. Halliwell.
  3. noun a harness maker. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
  4. noun One who slaughters worn-out horses and sells their flesh for dog's meat. [Eng.]

Etymology [Cf. Icel.hnakkr a saddle.]

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