Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

θ	thin	ð	this	ʃ	she	ʒ	measure
tʃ	church	dʒ	judge	ŋ	sing	j	yes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

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)

-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.

roughhouse

/ˈɹʌf.haʊs/ adjective, noun, verb

Forms roughhouses roughhousing roughhoused rough house rough-house

adjective (idiomatic) Of behavior, rowdy, boisterous, or fighting.
noun (idiomatic) Rowdy behavior.
verb To play roughly (with physical roughness). “Out in the street, some delinquents were roughhousing, until the police drove by.”
verb To commit physical assault. “Out in the street, some delinquents were roughhousing, until the police drove by.”
verb (transitive) To treat (someone or something) roughly or violently. “Out in the street, some delinquents were roughhousing a victim, until the police drove by.”

Synonyms

From rough + house.

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