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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pipe down

verb

Forms pipes down piping down piped down

  1. verb (idiomatic, intransitive) To be quiet; to refrain from being noisy. “Pipe down, children. I'm trying to work.”
  2. verb (transitive) To dismiss from muster, as a ship's company.
  3. verb (slang, transitive) Of a man, to have penetrative sex with a woman.

Synonyms

belt up button it button one's lip back that train up can it clam up cork it dummy up hush down hush one's mouth put a lid on it put a sock in it shaddap shut it shut one's big bazoo shut one's cake hole shut one's face shut one's gob shut one's head shut one's mouth quieten hush quiet quiesce quiet down

Antonyms

pipe up

Etymology

The sex sense is related to lay the pipe.

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