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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plonk

UK /plɒŋk/ · US /plɑŋk/ interjection, noun, verb, adverb, proper noun

Forms plonks plonking plonked

  1. interjection The sound made by something solid landing.
  2. interjection (Internet) The supposed sound of adding a user to one's kill file.
  3. noun (countable) The sound of something solid landing. “I just heard a plonk – did something fall down in the kitchen?”
  4. verb (transitive) To set or toss (something) down carelessly. “When you’ve finished with the sponge, just plonk it back in the sink.”
  5. verb (reflexive) To sit down heavily and without ceremony.
  6. verb (transitive, Internet slang) To automatically ignore or block a particular poster. “I got tired of his trolling and ad hominem attacks, so I plonked him.”
  7. adverb (followed by a location) Precisely and forcefully. “He dropped his bag of tools plonk in the middle of the table.”
  8. noun (uncountable, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, informal) Cheap or inferior everyday wine.
  9. noun (military, slang, historical) AC Plonk
  10. noun (countable, derogatory, UK, Ireland, law enforcement slang) A female police constable. “Chris and that plonk had better be flushing the scum out.”
  11. proper noun (computing) A solution stack consisting of Prometheus (metrics and time-series), Linkerd (service mesh), OpenFaaS (management and auto-scaling of compute), NATS (asynchronous message bus/queue), and Kubernetes (declarative, extensible, scale-out, self-healing clustering).

Synonyms

kill file bang slap bang 5-O alphabet barney beatsman bizzie bluebottle bluecoat blue heeler blue meanie bobby body snatcher bogey boy in blue bull bullyman buttons centenier plank flump plop plunk plump down plunk down plump

Etymology

Onomatopoeic. Compare plunk.

From WWI military slang, derived by alteration of French vin blanc (“white wine”) by the law of Hobson-Jobson. Recorded earliest in the playful rhyming slang form plinketty-plonk. Possibly influenced by the sound of wine being poured into a glass.

Probably a shortening of plonker.

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