Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

θ	thin	ð	this	ʃ	she	ʒ	measure
tʃ	church	dʒ	judge	ŋ	sing	j	yes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

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)

-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.

pinkie

/ˈpɪŋki/ noun, proper noun

Also a form of pinky

Forms pinkies pinky

noun (informal) A little finger, the finger furthest on a hand from the thumb.
noun (informal, less commonly) A little toe, the toe furthest on a foot from the big toe.
noun (Australia, South Australia) A bilby.
proper noun A locality and historical house in Inveresk parish, East Lothian, Scotland.
proper noun The Battle of Pinkie Cleugh

Synonyms

From Dutch pinkje (literally “little finger”), which in the Holland dialects takes the form pinkie.

From Kaurna bingu.

Probably from Cumbric *pant (“hollow, depression”) + Cumbric *cin (“wedge, chisel”).

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