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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scud

/skʌd/ adjective, verb, noun, proper noun

Forms scuds scudding scudded skud

  1. adjective (slang, Scotland) Naked.
  2. verb (intransitive) To race along swiftly (especially used of clouds). “clouds scudding across the sky”
  3. verb (ambitransitive, nautical) To run, or be driven, before a high wind with few or no sails set.
  4. verb (Northumbria) To hit or slap.
  5. verb (Northumbria) To speed.
  6. verb (Northumbria) To skim flat stones so they skip along the water.
  7. verb To scrape (skins) to remove hair etc. as part of the tanning process.
  8. noun The act of scudding.
  9. noun Clouds or rain(s) (or snow, etc) driven by the wind.
  10. noun (uncountable) A loose formation of small ragged cloud fragments (or fog) not attached to a larger higher cloud layer.
  11. noun A gust of wind.
  12. noun (Bristol) A scab on a wound.
  13. noun A small flight of larks, or other birds, less than a flock.
  14. noun Any swimming amphipod, usually Gammarus
  15. noun A swift runner.
  16. proper noun A Soviet-developed tactical ballistic missile.

Synonyms

pannus fractus scudding dart dash scoot flash shoot rack

Etymology

First attested in 1530, of unknown origin but perhaps from Middle English scut (“rabbit, rabbit's tail”) or from Middle Dutch schudden (“to shake”), ultimately of Scandinavian origin.

The term comes from the NATO reporting name SS-1 Scud which was attached to the missile by Western intelligence agencies.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To move swiftly; especially, to move as if driven forward by something.
  2. verb To be driven swiftly, or to run, before a gale, with little or no sail spread.
  3. verb To pass over quickly. [R.] Shenstone.
  4. noun The act of scudding; a driving along; a rushing with precipitation.

Etymology [Dan. skyde to shoot, shove, push, akin to skud shot, gunshot, a shoot, young bough, and to E. shoot. sq. root159. See Shoot.]

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