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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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puke

/pjuːk/ noun, verb

Forms pukes puking puked

  1. noun (colloquial, uncountable) vomit.
  2. noun (colloquial, countable) A drug that induces vomiting.
  3. noun (colloquial, countable) A worthless, despicable person.
  4. noun (US, slang, derogatory, countable) A person from Missouri.
  5. verb (colloquial, ambitransitive) To vomit; to throw up; to eject from the stomach. “Unfortunately, he could not hold it long enough till the end of the ride, so he puked on the bus seat.”
  6. verb (intransitive, finance, slang) To sell securities or investments at a loss, often under duress or pressure, in order to satisfy liquidity or margin requirements, or out of a desire to exit a deteriorating market.
  7. noun A fine grade of woolen cloth.
  8. noun A very dark, dull, brownish-red color.

Synonyms

vomit rotter regurgitate barf spew throw up spew up dirty dog rat skunk stinker stinkpot bum crumb lowlife scum bag so-and-so git vomitus vomit up purge cast sick cat be sick disgorge regorge retch spue chuck

Etymology

Probably imitative; or, alternatively related to Proto-Germanic *pukaną (“to spit, puff”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew- (“to blow, swell”). If so, then related to German pfauchen, fauchen (“to hiss, spit”), Dutch spugen (“to spit, spit up”), German spucken (“to spit, puke, throw up”), and Old English spīwan (“to vomit, spit”). More at spew.
Attested as early as 1581, first mention is the derivative pukishness (“the tendency to be sick frequently”). In 1600, "to spit up, regurgitate", recorded in the Seven Ages of Man speech in Shakespeare's As You Like It.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To eject the contests of the stomach; to vomit; to spew.
  2. verb To eject from the stomach; to vomit up.
  3. noun A medicine that causes vomiting; an emetic; a vomit.
  4. adjective Of a color supposed to be between black and russet. Shak.

Etymology [Cf. G. spucken to spit, and E. spew.]

Etymology [Etymol. uncertain.]

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