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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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

paddy

[ˈpʰæɾi] noun, adjective, proper noun

Forms paddies Paddys

  1. noun Rough or unhusked rice, either before it is milled or as a crop to be harvested.
  2. noun (countable) A paddy field, a rice paddy; an irrigated or flooded field where rice is grown.
  3. adjective (obsolete) Low; mean; boorish; vagabond.
  4. noun A fit of temper; a tantrum. “throw a paddy etc.”
  5. noun (African-American Vernacular, slang) A white person.
  6. noun (colloquial, England) A labourer's assistant or workmate.
  7. noun A drill used in boring wells, with cutters that expand on pressure.
  8. noun A snowy sheathbill.
  9. proper noun An Irish nickname for Patrick.
  10. noun (slang, sometimes offensive) An Irish person.

Synonyms

palay tantrum catfit conniption conniption fit dummy spit headfit hissy hissy fit meltdown melty shit fit snit fit wobbler wobbly Pat Mick Mickey paddy field rice paddy

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay padi (“paddy plant”). Doublet of palay.

English dialect paddy (“worm-eaten”).

Possibly from Paddy (“Irishman”).

Perhaps after the paddy bird, or egret.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Low; mean; boorish; vagabond. "Such pady persons." Digges (1585). "The paddy persons." Motley.
  2. noun A jocose or contemptuous name for an Irishman.
  3. noun Unhusked rice; --commonly so called in the East Indies. Paddy bird. (Zoöl.) See Java sparrow, under Java.
  4. noun An elephant that is furnished with a pad for carrying burdens instead of with a howdah for carrying passengers.

Etymology [Prov. E. paddy worm-eaten.]

Etymology [Corrupted fr. St. Patrick, the tutelar saint of Ireland.]

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

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “paddy” (best matches first).