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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scut

/skʌt/ noun, verb

Forms scuts scutting

  1. noun (obsolete) A hare; (hunting, also figuratively) a hare as the game in a hunt.
  2. noun A short, erect tail, as of a hare, rabbit, or deer.
  3. noun (by extension) The buttocks or rump; also, the female pudenda, the vulva.
  4. noun (chiefly Ireland, colloquial) A contemptible person.
  5. noun (attributively) Distasteful work; drudgery
  6. noun (medicine, slang) Some menial procedure left for a doctor or medical student to complete, sometimes for training purposes.
  7. verb (intransitive, originally Cumbria, East Anglia, Yorkshire) To scamper off.

Synonyms

arsehole ass assface asshat asshole asswipe bastard bitch blackguard blaggard buttlicker buttmunch carrion cockhead cocklicker cocksucker cowson crud cunt dick

Etymology

From Middle English scut (“hare”); further etymology uncertain, possibly related to Middle English scut, scute (“short”), possibly from Old French escorter, escurter, or Latin excurtāre, scurtāre, from curtō (“to cut short, shorten”), from curtus (“short; shortened”) (from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut off”)) + -ō. A derivation from Old Norse skut, skutr (“stern of a boat”), or Icelandic skott (“animal's tail”) is thought to be unlikely.
As to sense 3 (“the female pudenda, the vulva”), see the letter of 5 June 1875 from Joseph Crosby to Joseph Parker Norris published in One Touch of Shakespeare (1986).

Uncertain, possibly a variant of scout (“(obsolete except Scotland) contemptible person”), possibly related to scout (“to reject with contempt; to scoff”), from a North Germanic language; compare Old Norse skúta, skúte (“a taunt”), probably from Proto-Germanic *skeutaną (“to shoot”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewd- (“to shoot; to throw”). Compare Old Norse skútyrði, skotyrði (“abusive language”).

Uncertain; perhaps related to scut (“contemptible person”): see etymology 2.

Origin unknown; perhaps from scut(tle), or related to Swedish skutta (“to leap”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The tail of a hare, or of a deer, or other animal whose tail is short, sp. when carried erect; hence, sometimes, the animal itself.

Etymology [Cf. Icel. skott a fox's tail. sq. root 159.]

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