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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plug

/plʌɡ/ noun, verb

Forms plugs plugging plugged

  1. noun (electricity) A pronged connecting device which fits into a mating socket, especially an electrical one. “I pushed the plug back into the electrical socket and the lamp began to glow again.”
  2. noun (loosely) An electric socket: wall plug.
  3. noun Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole. “Pull the plug out of the tub so it can drain.”
  4. noun (US, countable, uncountable) A flat oblong cake of cured and pressed tobacco; the tobacco that constitutes it. “He preferred a plug to snuff.”
  5. noun (US, slang) A high, tapering silk hat.
  6. noun (US, slang) A worthless horse. “That sorry old plug is ready for the glue factory!”
  7. noun (dated) Any worn-out or useless article.
  8. noun (dated, slang) A book that fails to sell.
  9. verb (transitive) To stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole. “He attempted to plug the leaks with some caulk.”
  10. verb (transitive) To promote (something, especially a product or service); to mention (something) as if promoting or advertising it. “The main guest on the show just kept plugging his latest movie: it got so tiresome.”
  11. verb (intransitive, informal) To persist or continue with something. “Keep plugging at the problem until you find a solution.”
  12. verb (transitive, slang) To shoot (someone) with a bullet.
  13. verb (transitive, slang) To have sex with; to penetrate sexually. “I’d love to plug him with my strap-on.”
  14. verb (transitive, slang) To ingest a drug rectally.

Synonyms

bung dowel stopper stopple chewing tobacco bum dobbin hack jade nag earspool block peg pin stop plug away keep up cap pop bust a cap chew chaw cud quid wad ballyhoo hoopla hype spark plug sparking plug

Etymology

From Dutch plug, from Middle Dutch plugge (“peg, plug”), from Old Dutch *pluggi, from Proto-West Germanic *plugi. Further origin unknown. Possibly from Proto-Germanic *plugjaz, but the word seems originally restricted to northern continental West Germanic. Perhaps ultimately from the same source as Dutch plag (“cut-out sod”), itself considered to be from a substrate.
Compare German Low German Plüg, Norwegian plug (“peg, wedge”, probably borrowed from Middle Low German), German Pflock (“peg”, restricted to Central German and phonetically divergent). Possibly akin to Lithuanian plúkti (“to strike, hew”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole; a stopple.
  2. noun A flat oblong cake of pressed tobacco. [U. S.]
  3. verb To stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole.
  4. verb A switchboard in which connections are made by means of plugs.

Etymology [Akin to D. plug, G. pflock, Dan. plök, plug, Sw. plugg; cf. W. ploc.]

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