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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percy

UK /ˈpɜːsi/ · US /ˈpɝki/ noun, proper noun

Forms percies

  1. noun (slang) A unit of Percocet.
  2. proper noun An English surname from Old French.
  3. proper noun A male given name transferred from the surname or from a clipping of Percival, of Middle Ages and later usage.
  4. proper noun A commune in Isère department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.
  5. proper noun A village in Manche department, Normandy, France.
  6. proper noun A township in Kittson County, Minnesota, United States.
  7. proper noun An unincorporated community in Washington County, Mississippi, United States.
  8. proper noun A village in Randolph County, Illinois, United States.
  9. noun A male person regarded as unmanly or weak; a sissy.
  10. noun (historical) A male conscientious objector.
  11. noun (military) An educated soldier; specifically, an officer.
  12. noun (Australia, UK, humorous) Chiefly in point Percy at the porcelain: the penis.

Synonyms

nancy pansy bading big girl's blouse cockney cot-quean cupcake dudelet fakaleiti fairy femboy gentleman ginch girl's blouse girlyman janegirl jessie nancyboy nancy pants poof Walker Percy Sir Henry Percy Hotspur Harry Hotspur

Antonyms

Chad hombre he-man macho jock macho man man among men manimal

Etymology

Clipping of Percocet + -y.

Proper noun senses 1 (surname) and 3 (place names) are derived from Norman Percy (“a baronial surname”), from Percy-en-Auge (“a place in Pays d’Auge, Normandy, France”, literally “Percy in Auge”), from Old French Perci, from Late Latin Persiacum, from Latin Persius (“a Gallo-Roman nomen gentile”), from Etruscan 𐌐𐌄𐌓𐌔𐌖 (persu); further etymology uncertain, possibly from 𐌘𐌄𐌓𐌔𐌖 (φersu, “mask”).
Proper noun sense 2 (given name) is either from the above, or is a clipping of Perc(ival) + -y (suffix forming familiar names).
The common noun is derived from the proper noun. Sense 2 (“penis”) is probably from the fact that Percy and penis begin with the same letter.

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 — from the Wiktionary entry “percy”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details