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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poker

UK /ˈpəʊkə/ · US /ˈpoʊkɚ/ noun, verb

Forms pokers pokering pokered

  1. noun A metal rod, generally of wrought iron, for adjusting the burning logs or coals in a fire; a firestick.
  2. noun (historical) A tool like a soldering iron for making poker drawings.
  3. noun One who pokes.
  4. noun A kind of duck, the pochard.
  5. noun (MLE, slang) A knife.
  6. noun (UK, slang, obsolete) A bedel (who carries a silver mace).
  7. verb (transitive) To poke with a utensil such as a poker or needle.
  8. noun (card games) Any of various card games in which, following each of one or more rounds of dealing or revealing cards, the players in sequence make tactical bets or drop out, the bets forming a pool to be taken either by the sole remaining player or, after all rounds and bets have been completed, by those remaining players who hold a superior hand according to a standard ranking of hand values for the game.
  9. noun (card games) All the four cards of the same rank.
  10. noun (soccer, rare) The scoring of four goals by a player in one match.
  11. verb To play poker.
  12. noun (US, colloquial) Any imagined frightful object, especially one supposed to haunt the darkness; a bugbear.

Synonyms

firestick stoker fire pike jook jooker ching ying bassy rambo pokey chete shank nank splash splasher cheffer wetter silver poker haul stove poker fire hook salamander poker game

Etymology

American English, perhaps from first element of German Pochspiel, from German pochen, perhaps from French poque. First appeared in the 19th century.

Compare Danish pokker (“the deuce, devil”), and English puck.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who pokes.
  2. noun That which pokes or is used in poking, especially a metal bar or rod used in stirring a fire of coals.
  3. noun A game at cards derived from brag, and first played about 1835 in the Southwestern United States. Johnson's Cyc.
  4. noun Any imagined frightful object, especially one supposed to haunt the darkness; a bugbear. [Colloq. U. S.]

Etymology [From Poke to push.]

Etymology [Of uncertain etymol.]

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