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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lob

UK /lɒb/ · US /lɑb/ verb, noun, proper noun

Also a form of lop

Forms lobs lobbing lobbed the lob

  1. verb (transitive) To throw or hit a ball into the air in a high arc. “The guard lobbed a pass just over the defender.”
  2. verb (transitive, colloquial) To throw.
  3. verb (transitive, colloquial) To put, place. “Lob the bacon in the pot.”
  4. verb (transitive, sports) To hit, kick, or throw a ball over another player in a game.
  5. verb (obsolete, transitive) To let fall heavily or lazily.
  6. verb (Australia, intransitive, informal) To reach or arrive at (a place).
  7. noun (ball games) A pass or stroke which arcs high into the air. “The guard launched a desperate lob over the outstretched arms of the defender.”
  8. noun (obsolete) A country bumpkin; a yokel.
  9. noun A lump.
  10. noun (dialectal) A nugget (of gold); (hence), a quantity of money; a haul; booty.
  11. noun A clumsy person.
  12. noun The person who comes last in a race.
  13. noun A lob-worm.
  14. noun A fish, the European pollock.
  15. noun A long bob haircut.
  16. noun (UK, slang, obsolete) A form of fraud in which a person asks for change in a shop, palms some of the coins, and tells the shopkeeper that he has not given them enough.
  17. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

fling hurl bung cast chuck chunk cook dash dump feck jerk heave hield hoy huck hurtle launch peck peg pick

Etymology

First attested late 16th c. in the sense "allow or cause to dangle, hang," from sense 2.

From Middle English lob (“a lazy lout, bundle of clothing”), from Old English *lobb, *lobbe word for lumpish or unwieldy things, from Proto-Germanic *lubbǭ (“that which hangs or dangles”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewbʰ-, *lep- (“to peel, skin”). Compare Danish lobbes (“bumpkin, clown”), Old English loppe (“spider”) (in the sense of something that hangs or dangles). Possibly influenced or borrowed through Welsh llob (“lump”).

From Middle English lob (“pollock”), cognate with Middle Dutch and Middle Low German lobbe (“a type of small plump or stocky fish, cod”), Danish lubbe, from Old Norse lubba, ultimately from sense 2 in the sense of "clumsy, heavily or lumpily hanging."

Blend of long + bob.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A dull, heavy person. " Country lobs." Gauden.
  2. noun Something thick and heavy.
  3. verb To let fall heavily or lazily.
  4. verb See Cob, v. t.

Etymology [W. llob an unwieldy lump, a dull fellow, a blockhead. Cf. Looby, Lubber.]

Etymology [Dan. lubbe.]

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