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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badger

UK /ˈbæd͡ʒə/ · US /ˈbæd͡ʒɚ/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms badgers badgering badgered

  1. noun Any member of species of the genera Meles, Arctonyx, Mellivora or Taxidea, of mammals.
  2. noun A native or resident of the American state, Wisconsin.
  3. noun (obsolete) A brush made of badger hair.
  4. noun (in the plural, obsolete, cant) A gang of robbers who robbed near rivers, into which they threw the bodies of those they murdered.
  5. noun (slang, cricket) A person who is very fond of cricket.
  6. verb (transitive) To pester; to annoy persistently; to press. “He kept badgering her about her bad habits.”
  7. noun (obsolete) An itinerant licensed dealer in commodities used for food; a hawker or huckster; especially one who bought grain in one place and sold it in another.
  8. noun A native or resident of the American state of Wisconsin.
  9. proper noun A village in Shropshire, England.
  10. proper noun A town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
  11. proper noun A habitational surname from Old English.
  12. noun A child member of the St John Ambulance medical volunteering organisation.

Synonyms

brock Wisconsinite bait hound bedevil beleaguer persecute dog bullyrag besiege bug devil beset chevy give someone grief harass harry pester pick at plague tease

Etymology

From Middle English bageard (“marked by a badge”), from bage (“badge”), referring to the animal's badge-like white blaze, equivalent to badge + -ard. Displaced earlier brock, from Old English brocc.

Unknown Possibly from bagger. "Baggier" is cited by the OED in 1467-8.

See Badger State.

From Old English *Bæcg (“a personal name”) + ofer (“hill spur”).
The name of the town in Newfoundland likely derives from the surname of one of its first inhabitants.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun An itinerant licensed dealer in commodities used for food; a hawker; a huckster; --formerly applied especially to one who bought grain in one place and sold it in another. [Now dialectic, Eng.]
  2. noun A carnivorous quadruped of the genus Meles or of an allied genus.
  3. noun A brush made of badgers' hair, used by artists. Badger dog. (Zoöl.) See Dachshund.
  4. verb To tease or annoy, as a badger when baited; to worry or irritate persistently.

Etymology [Of uncertain origin; perh. fr. an old verb badge to lay up provisions to sell again.]

Etymology [OE. bageard, prob. fr. badge + -ard, in reference to the white mark on its forehead. See Badge,n.]

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