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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pimp

/pɪmp/ noun, verb, adjective, numeral

Forms pimps pimping pimped

  1. noun Someone who solicits customers for prostitution and acts as manager for a group of prostitutes; a pander.
  2. noun (African-American Vernacular, slang) A man who can easily attract women.
  3. verb (intransitive) To act as a procurer of prostitutes; to pander.
  4. verb (transitive) To prostitute someone. “The smooth-talking, tall man with heavy gold bracelets claimed he could pimp anyone.”
  5. verb (transitive, African-American Vernacular, slang) To excessively customize something, especially a vehicle. “You pimped out that motorcycle f'real, dawg.”
  6. verb (transitive, medicine, slang) To ask progressively harder and ultimately unanswerable questions of a resident or medical student (said of a senior member of the medical staff).
  7. verb (transitive, US, slang) To promote, to tout. “I gotta show you this sweet website where you can pimp your blog and get more readers.”
  8. verb (US, slang) To persuade, smooth talk or trick another into doing something for your benefit. “I pimped her out of $2,000 and she paid for the entire stay at the Bahamas.”
  9. adjective (slang) Excellent, fashionable, stylish.
  10. numeral (Cumbria and Old Welsh) Five in Cumbrian and Welsh sheep counting.

Synonyms

abbot bludger bully cock-bawd dalaal fishmonger flashman fleshmonger hoon hustler mackerel mack mack daddy muttonmonger nookie-bookie pandar pussymonger ruffian souteneur sweetman procurer panderer pander fancy man ponce procure

Etymology

Origin unknown. Perhaps from French pimpant (“smart, sparkish”) or German Pimpf (“a boy, a youth, a young squirt”). The Old English near-synonym was rendered by Old English forspennend (literally “a solicitor”).

From Brythonic numerals, from Proto-Brythonic *pɨmp.
Cognate with Welsh pump, Cornish pymp, Breton pemp. Doublet of cinque, fin (“five currency units”), finnuf, five, ponzu, punch (“beverage”), and sengi (“currency”); related to Pompeii.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who provides gratification for the lust of others; a procurer; a pander. Swift.
  2. verb To procure women for the gratification of others' lusts; to pander. Dryden.

Etymology [Cf. F. pimpant smart, sparkish; perh. akin to piper to pipe, formerly also, to excel. Cf. Pipe.]

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

Sanskrit

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