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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mop

UK /mɒp/ · US /mɑp/ noun, verb

Forms mops mopping mopped

  1. noun An implement for washing floors or similar, made of a piece of cloth, or a collection of thrums, or coarse yarn, fastened to a handle.
  2. noun A wash with a mop; the act of mopping. “He gave the floor a quick mop to soak up the spilt juice.”
  3. noun (humorous) A dense head of hair. “He ran a comb through his mop and hurried out the door.”
  4. noun (UK, dialect, West Midlands) An annual fair where servants were historically hired.
  5. noun (UK, obsolete) A tassel worn in a buttonhole to indicate ones occupation in such a fair.
  6. noun (African-American Vernacular, MLE, slang) A firearm particularly if it has a large magazine (compare broom, but still can be related to MP)
  7. noun (slang, uncountable) Fellatio.
  8. noun (graffiti) A squeezable high-flow paint marker with an extra-wide felt or foam tip.
  9. verb (transitive) To rub, scrub, clean or wipe with a mop, or as if with a mop. “to mop (or scrub) a floor”
  10. verb (US, slang) To shoplift.
  11. noun (UK, dialect, obsolete) The young of any animal.
  12. noun (UK, dialect, obsolete) A young girl; a moppet.
  13. noun A made-up face; a grimace.
  14. verb (intransitive) To make a wry expression with the mouth.
  15. noun (US, military) GBU-57; Acronym of Massive Ordnance Penetrator.

Synonyms

firearm gat gun iron piece swab swob wipe up mop up pout mow

Etymology

From Middle English mappe (also as mappel), perhaps borrowed from Walloon mappe (“napkin”), from Latin mappa (“napkin, cloth”). Believed to be from a Semitic source, variously claimed as Phoenician or Punic (the latter by Quintilian). Compare Modern Hebrew מַפָּה (mapá, “a map; a cloth”) (shortened from מַנְפָּה (manpah, “fluttering banner, streaming cloth”)). Doublet of map, nape, and nappe.

From Middle English moppe (“fool, simpleton; derisive gesture; child, baby, doll”), of obscure origin, but compare Proto-West Germanic *mauwu (“pout, protruding lip”).
Compare Low German mop, mops (“simpleton; pugnosed dog”), Dutch mop, mops (“pugnosed dog”), and the verb mope.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A made-up face; a grimace. "What mops and mowes it makes!" Beau. & Fl.
  2. verb To make a wry mouth. [Obs.] Shak.
  3. noun An implement for washing floors, or the like, made of a piece of cloth, or a collection of thrums, or coarse yarn, fastened to a handle.
  4. noun A fair where servants are hired. [Prov. Eng.]

Etymology [See Mope.]

Etymology [CF. W. mop, mopa, Ir. moipal, Gael. moibeal, moibean; or OF. mappe a napkin (see Map, Napkin).]

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