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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plunk

/plʌŋk/ noun, adverb, interjection, verb, proper noun

Forms plunks plunking plunked

  1. noun A brief, dull sound, such as the sound of a string of a stringed instrument being plucked, or the thud of something landing on a surface.
  2. noun (informal) A (heavy) blow or hit.
  3. noun (US, archaic or obsolete) A dollar.
  4. noun (obsolete, rare) A large sum of money.
  5. adverb With a brief, dull sound, such as the thud of something landing on a surface.
  6. adverb (by extension) Directly, exactly, precisely.
  7. interjection Often reduplicated: used to represent a brief, dull sound, such as the sound of a string of a stringed instrument being plucked, or the thud of something landing on a surface.
  8. verb To move (something) with a sudden push.
  9. verb (figurative) Chiefly followed by down or out: to pay (money); to plank.
  10. verb (music) To pluck and quickly release (a string of a stringed instrument); also, to play (a stringed instrument) by plucking strings; to play (a piano, etc.) by striking keys; or, to play (a note or tune) on such an instrument.
  11. verb (also reflexive, originally Scotland) Often followed by down: to drop, set, or throw (something, or oneself) abruptly and/or heavily into or on to a surface or some other thing, making a dull sound; to plump. “Enrique plunked his money down on the counter with a sigh and bellied up to the bar.”
  12. verb (chiefly US) To hit or injure (someone or something); also, to shoot (someone or something) with a firearm.
  13. verb (baseball) To pitch a ball in a way that it hits (a player). “The Braves retaliated by plunking Harper in the next inning.”
  14. verb To make a brief, dull sound, such as the thud of something landing on a surface; to thud.
  15. verb (figurative) Followed by for: to choose, to opt; to plump.
  16. verb (transitive) To be absent from (school) without permission; to be a truant.
  17. verb (intransitive) To play truant.
  18. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

plonk plump accurately correctly dead-nuts definitely directly even for sure exact exactly fully incisively just jump on target on the button on the dot on the mark on the money plunker clop clump clunk plank flump plop plump down plunk down dive

Etymology

Onomatopoeic; the noun is attested earlier than the verb. Noun etymology 1, noun sense 3 (“dollar; large sum of money”) may refer to the sound of a coin hitting a surface. Compare plonk, plink.
As regards verb etymology 1, verb sense 1.4 (“(transitive) to drop, set, or throw (something, or oneself) abruptly and/or heavily”) and etymology 1, verb sense 2.4 (“(intransitive) to drop, land, or set abruptly and/or heavily”), compare French plonquer (Picardy), a variant of plonger (“to plunge”).

Origin uncertain; possibly the same as plunk (etymology 1), or related to Dutch plenken (“(archaic) to wander around; (Limburg, archaic) to play truant”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To pluck and release quickly (a musical string); to twang.
  2. verb To throw, push, drive heavily, plumply, or suddenly; as, to plunk down a dollar; also, to hit or strike.
  3. noun Act or sound of plunking. [Colloq.]
  4. noun [Slang]

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