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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muck

/mʌk/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms mucks mucking mucked

  1. noun Slimy mud, sludge. “The car was covered in muck from the rally race.”
  2. noun Soft (or slimy) manure.
  3. noun (also figurative) Anything filthy or vile. Dirt; something that makes another thing dirty. “What's that green muck on the floor?”
  4. noun Grub, slop, swill
  5. noun (obsolete, derogatory) Money.
  6. noun (poker) The pile of discarded cards.
  7. noun (Scotland, slang) Heroin.
  8. noun (slang) Pornography.
  9. verb (transitive) To shovel muck from. “We need to muck the stable before it gets too thick.”
  10. verb (transitive) To manure with muck.
  11. verb To do a dirty job.
  12. verb (poker, colloquial) To pass, to fold without showing one's cards, often done when a better hand has already been revealed.
  13. verb (Australia, informal, intransitive) To vomit. “Move out of the way: I think I'm gonna muck.”
  14. verb (Canada, slang) To eat; to devour or guzzle.
  15. proper noun A surname.
  16. proper noun A small island in the Small Isles, Highland council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NM4179).
  17. noun (Internet) A kind of textbased online roleplaying game incorporating social interaction and allowing players to extend the environment with new rooms, objects, etc.

Synonyms

ackers bees and honey blunt bones brass bread bread and honey Bugs Bunny cake cheddar cheese ching clams coin cream tender currency dinero dosh dough sludge slime goo goop gook guck gunk ooze droppings dung

Etymology

From Middle English mok, muk, from Old Norse myki, mykr (“dung”) or less likely Old English *moc, *moce (in hlōsmoc (“pigsty dung”) and lustmoce (“lady's smock (Cardamine pratensis)”)) (compare Icelandic mykja and Danish møg ("dung")), from Proto-Germanic *mukį̄ (“dung; manure”), from Proto-Germanic *muk-, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mewg-, *mewk- (“slick, slippery”) (compare Welsh mign (“swamp”), Latin mūcus (“snot”), mucere (“to be moldy or musty”), Latvian mukls (“swampy”), Albanian myk (“mould”), Ancient Greek μύξα (múxa, “mucus, lamp wick”), Ancient Greek μύκης (múkēs, “mushroom”), German Mauke (“mud fever”)), from *(s)mewg, mewk 'to slip'. More at meek.

From the German surname, from Mücke (“mosquito”).

From Scottish Gaelic muc (“pig”), recorded 1370 as Helantmok (Isle of pigs).

From muck, as a play on mud (“a mucky substance”) and MUD (“multi-user dungeon”). Various backronyms have been invented but are not the true origin.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Dung in a moist state; manure. Bacon.
  2. noun Vegetable mold mixed with earth, as found in low, damp places and swamps.
  3. adjective Like muck; mucky; also, used in collecting or distributing muck; as, a muck fork.
  4. verb To manure with muck.

Etymology [Icel. myki; akin to D. mög. Cf. Midden.]

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