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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muggins

/ˈmʌ.ɡɪnz/ noun

Forms mugginses

  1. noun (chiefly UK) A fool or idiot (especially as an ironic way of referring to oneself). “I suppose muggins here will have to do all the work, as usual.”
  2. noun (cribbage) The act of stealing another player's points because they either mispegged or counted up incorrectly.
  3. noun (uncountable) A game of dominoes in which the object is to make the sum of the two ends of the line some multiple of five.
  4. noun (uncountable) A card game based on building in suits or matching exposed cards, the object being to get rid of one's cards.

Synonyms

fool sap saphead tomfool

Etymology

Origin unknown. Sense 'fool' originally British slang of 1770s, probably an extension of earlier mug (“fool”). Game senses perhaps from surname Muggins.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A game of dominoes in which the object is to make the sum of the two ends of the line some multiple of five.
  2. noun A game at cards which depends upon building in suits or matching exposed cards, the object being to get rid of one's cards.
  3. verb In certain games, to score against, or take an advantage over (an opponent), as for an error, announcing the act by saying "muggins."

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