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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randy

/ˈɹændi/ adjective, noun, proper noun

Forms randier randiest randies randie ranty

  1. adjective (UK, informal) Sexually aroused; full of sexual lust. “If you're feeling randy, give me a call and I'll come round and give you some hot lovin'.”
  2. adjective (chiefly Scotland) Rude or coarse in manner.
  3. noun An impudent beggar.
  4. noun A boisterous, coarse, loose woman.
  5. noun A virago.
  6. noun (slang, video games) A random.
  7. noun (sports, aerial freestyle skiing) A Two-and-a-half-twist acrobatic maneuver.
  8. proper noun A diminutive of the male given names Randall and Randolph, used as a male given name in the US.
  9. proper noun A diminutive of the female given name Miranda.

Synonyms

horny toey coarse rude aroused ruttish steamy turned on

Etymology

First use appears c. 1665 in a letter by the Earl of Argyll. From Scottish randy (“boisterous, aggressive”), of uncertain origin. Probably from rand (“to storm, rave”, verb), a variant of rant, see rant; or from rand (“edge”, noun), in the sense of "edgy, on edge", from Middle English rand (“edge, brink, margin, border”), from Old English rand (“edge, border, margin, rim”). Related to randan.

Clipping of random + -y.

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