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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mull

/mʌl/ verb, noun, proper noun

Forms mulls mulling mulled

  1. verb (usually with over) To work (over) mentally; to cogitate; to ruminate. “to mull a thought or a problem”
  2. verb To powder; to pulverize.
  3. verb To chop marijuana so that it becomes a smokable form.
  4. verb To heat and spice something, such as wine.
  5. verb To join two or more individual windows at mullions.
  6. verb To dull or stupefy.
  7. verb (slang, archaic) To bungle or botch.
  8. noun (uncountable) Marijuana that has been chopped to prepare it for smoking.
  9. noun A stew of meat, broth, milk, butter, vegetables, and seasonings, thickened with soda crackers.
  10. noun The gauze used in bookbinding to adhere a text block to a book's cover.
  11. noun An inferior kind of madder prepared from the smaller roots or the peelings and refuse of the larger.
  12. noun (slang, archaic) A mess of something; a mistake.
  13. noun (dialectal, Northern England) Dirt, dust, or other waste matter.
  14. noun A thin, soft muslin.
  15. noun (Scotland) A promontory.
  16. noun A snuffbox made of the small end of a horn.
  17. noun Friable forest humus that forms a layer of mixed organic matter and mineral soil and merges gradually into the mineral soil beneath.
  18. proper noun An island, the second largest in the Inner Hebrides, in Argyll and Bute council area, Scotland.
  19. noun (Anglo-Indian, slang, obsolete) A member of the Service belonging to the Madras Presidency.

Synonyms

bhang benj boo broccoli bud buddha cannabis cheeba choof daccha dank devil's lettuce djamba doja doobage dope endo gage ganja ganj chew over think over meditate ponder excogitate contemplate muse reflect mull over ruminate

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English molle, mulle (“dust, rubbish”), possibly from Old English myl (“dust, mould”), from Proto-West Germanic *muli, a deverbal formation from *mulljan and thus cognate with Dutch mul (“dust, mould”), German Müll (“rubbish”), Swedish moln (“cloud”) and related to English mill (“to grind”). Alternatively, from Middle French mol or its etymon Latin mollis (“soft”).
Some verbal senses are supplied by Middle English mollen (“to soften, dissolve”), from Old French moillier, from Latin *molliāre (“to steep”), itself from mollis; compare moil.

Shortened from mulmul.

From Scottish Gaelic maol.

Borrowed from Danish muld, from Old Norse mold.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A thin, soft kind of muslin.
  2. noun A promontory; as, the Mull of Cantyre. [Scot.]
  3. noun A snuffbox made of the small end of a horn.
  4. noun Dirt; rubbish. [Obs.] Gower.

Etymology [Perh. contr. fr. mossul. See Muslin.]

Etymology [Icel. m a snout, muzzle, projecting crag; or cf. Ir. & Gael. meall a heap of earth, a mound, a hill or eminence, W. moel. Cf. Mouth.]

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