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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

scum

/skʌm/ noun, verb

Forms scums scumming scummed skum

  1. noun (uncountable) A layer of impurities that accumulates at the surface of a liquid (especially molten metal or water). “During smelting, scum rises to the surface and is then removed by the smelter.”
  2. noun (uncountable) A greenish water vegetation (such as algae), usually found floating on the surface of ponds “These organisms form scum in large quantities.”
  3. noun The topmost liquid layer of a cesspool or septic tank.
  4. noun (uncountable, slang, chiefly US) Semen.
  5. noun (derogatory, slang) A reprehensible person or persons. “People who sell used-up pens are scum, just total low-lives.”
  6. verb To remove the layer of scum from (a liquid etc.).
  7. verb To remove (something) as scum.
  8. verb To become covered with scum.
  9. verb (obsolete) To scour (the land, sea, etc.).
  10. verb (obsolete) To gather together, as scum.
  11. verb (video games, informal) To startscum or savescum.

Synonyms

dross impurity impurities cinder scoriae slag baby batter baby gravy balljuice boy juice cock juice cock snot come cream creme cum cumload cumshot cumwad dick juice trash

Etymology

From Middle English scum, scome, skum, skome, scumme, from Middle Low German or Middle Dutch schūme (“foam”), from Old Dutch *scūm, from Frankish *skūm, from Proto-Germanic *skūmaz (“froth, foam”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH- (“to cover, conceal”).
Cognate with Dutch schuim (“foam”), West Frisian skuum, German Schaum (“foam”), Danish and Swedish skum (“foam”). Compare also French écume (“scum”), Italian schiuma (“foam”), Saterland Frisian Skuum, Sicilian scuma (“foam”), Walloon schome (“scum, foam”), Lithuanian šamas (“catfish”) and skanus (“tasty”) from the same Germanic source. Related to skim.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The extraneous matter or impurities which rise to the surface of liquids in boiling or fermentation, or which form on the surface by other means; also, the scoria of metals in a molten state; dross.
  2. noun refuse; recrement; anything vile or worthless.
  3. verb To take the scum from; to clear off the impure matter from the surface of; to skim.
  4. verb To sweep or range over the surface of. [Obs.]

Etymology [Of Scand. origin; cf. Dan. & Sw. skum, Icel. sk, LG. schum, D. schuim, OHG. sc, G. schaum; probably from a root meaning, to cover. sq. root158. Cf. Hide skin, Meerschaum, Skim, v., Sky.]

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

Sanskrit

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