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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macaroni

UK /mæk.əˈɹəʊ.ni/ · US /ˌmæk.əˈɹoʊ.ni/ noun, adjective

Forms macaronis macaronies maccaroni

  1. noun (uncountable) A type of pasta in the form of short tubes, typically boiled and served in soup, with a sauce, or in melted cheese; a dish of this.
  2. noun (uncountable, obsolete or informal, loosely) Pasta, particularly thicker noodles, spaghetti.
  3. noun (uncountable, obsolete) Synonym of gnocchi (“Italian dumpling made of potato or semolina”).
  4. noun (countable, chiefly historical and derogatory) A dandy or fop, particularly in the 18th century a young Englishman who had travelled in Europe and subsequently dressed and spoke in an ostentatiously affected Continental manner.
  5. noun (countable, Caribbean, now historical, numismatics) A 19th-century quarter-silver dollar coin, typically a full 2-real coin or a quarter clipping of an 8-real coin from Central or South America.
  6. noun (countable, ethnic slur) Synonym of Italian (“a person from Italy or of Italian ethnicity”).
  7. noun (countable, Scotland, zoology, obsolete) Synonym of lizard canary.
  8. noun (uncountable, literature, obsolete) A mix of languages in macaronic verse.
  9. adjective (historical) Chic, fashionable, stylish; in the manner of a macaroni.
  10. noun (obsolete) A macaroon.

Synonyms

mac maccheroni noodle pasta paste gnocchi cockscomb popinjay poseur barbermonger beau blade blood buck carpet knight dandy dike dood dude dudelet

Etymology

From Italian maccaroni (plural of maccarone (archaic variant of maccheroni (“fool”))), of uncertain origin. Variously derived from late Byzantine Greek μακαρία (makaría, “food made from barley”), from Ancient Greek μάκαρ (mákar, “blessed; favored by the gods”), or from maccare (archaic variant of ammaccare (“to bruise; to crush”)), from Latin maccāre of the same meaning. Compare Sicilian maccarruni (“a single piece of macaroni”).
* As a fop, apparently from the British Macaroni Club rather than from Italian use of maccarone for fools and bumpkins.
* As a former form of currency, used to calque Spanish macuquino (18th-century colonial slang for a similarly clipped coin).

From French macaron. Doublet of macaron.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Long slender tubes made of a paste chiefly of wheat flour, and used as an article of food; Italian or Genoese paste.
  2. noun A medley; something droll or extravagant.

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