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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scarf

UK /skɑːf/ · US /skɑɹf/ noun, verb

Forms scarves scarfs scarfing scarfed scarve scart skart

  1. noun A long, often knitted, garment worn around the neck.
  2. noun A headscarf.
  3. noun (dated) A neckcloth or cravat.
  4. verb To throw on loosely; to put on like a scarf.
  5. verb To dress with a scarf, or as with a scarf; to cover with a loose wrapping. “She scarfed her head.”
  6. verb To cover as or like a scarf. “A cowl scarfed her shoulders.”
  7. noun A type of joint in woodworking, formed by two shaped ends that fit into or onto each other.
  8. noun A groove on one side of a sewing machine needle.
  9. noun A dip or notch or cut made in the trunk of a tree to direct its fall when felling.
  10. verb To shape by grinding or oxyfuel torch cutting.
  11. verb To form a scarf on the end or edge of, as for a joint in timber, forming a "V" groove for welding adjacent metal plates, metal rods, etc.
  12. verb To unite, as two pieces of timber or metal, by a scarf joint.
  13. verb (transitive, US, slang) To eat very quickly. “You sure scarfed that pizza.”
  14. noun (Scotland) A cormorant.

Synonyms

scarf down scarf up scoff guzzle scarf joint

Etymology

Probably from Old Northern French escarpe (compare Old French escharpe (“pilgrim's purse suspended from the neck”), which see). The verb is derived from the noun. Doublet of scrip.

Of uncertain origin. Possibly from Old Norse skarfr, derivative of skera (“to cut”).

Generally thought to be a variant, attested since the 1950s, of scoff (“eat (quickly)”) (of which scorf is another attested variant), itself a variant of scaff. Sometimes alternatively suggested to be a dialectal survival of Old English scearfian, sceorfan (“gnaw, bite”) (compare scurf).

From Old Norse skarfr.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A cormorant. [Scot.]
  2. noun An article of dress of a light and decorative character, worn loosely over the shoulders or about the neck or the waist; a light shawl or handkerchief for the neck; also, a cravat; a neckcloth.
  3. verb To throw on loosely; to put on like a scarf. "My sea-gown scarfed about me." Shak.
  4. verb To dress with a scarf, or as with a scarf; to cover with a loose wrapping. Shak.

Etymology [Icel. skarfr.]

Etymology [Cf. OF. escharpe a piligrim's scrip, or wallet (handing about the neck.), F. écharpe sash, scarf; probably from OHG. scharpe pocket; also (from the French) Dan. skiærf; Sw. skärp, Prov. G. schärfe, LG. scherf, G. schärpe; and also AS. scearf a fragment; possibly akin to E. scrip a wallet. Cf. Scarp a scarf.]

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

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “scarf” (best matches first).