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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shabby

/ˈʃæbi/ adjective, verb

Forms shabbier shabbiest shabbies shabbying shabbied

  1. adjective Of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect; scruffy. “They lived in a tiny apartment, with some old, shabby furniture.”
  2. adjective Of a person: wearing ragged or very worn, and often dirty, clothing. “The fellow arrived looking rather shabby after journeying so far.”
  3. adjective Of a person, their behaviour, etc.: despicable, mean; also, not generous; stingy, tight-fisted. “shabby treatment”
  4. adjective (often in the negative) Poor in quality; also, showing little effort or talent. “His painting is not too shabby.”
  5. adjective (medicine, archaic) Of the pulse: thready, weak.
  6. adjective (UK, dialectal or informal) Of weather: wet and dreary.
  7. adjective (UK, dialectal, veterinary medicine) Chiefly of sheep: affected by shab or scab (“a skin disease”); scabby.
  8. verb (transitive) To make (something) shabby (adjective sense 1); to shabbify.
  9. verb (intransitive) To become shabby; to shabbify.

Synonyms

decrepit moth-eaten run-down timeworn tired tacky clapped out damaged defective deteriorated dilapidated effete faulty munted outworn passé past it past one's prime raddled ragged ratty tatty

Etymology

The adjective is derived from shab (“(obsolete except UK, dialectal) scaly skin disease; skin disease of sheep; crust forming over wound, scab”) + -y (suffix meaning ‘having the quality of’ forming adjectives).
The verb is derived from the adjective.
* Dutch schabbig (“poor, needy, shabby”)
* Middle High German schebic (modern German schäbig (“shabby”))
* Middle Low German schabbich (“miserable”) (modern Low German schabbig, schäbbig)
* Scots shabby (“in poor health, ill”)
* Swedish sjabbig (“shabby, mangy, scruffy”), skabbig (“scabby”)

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Torn or worn to rage; poor; mean; ragged.
  2. adjective Clothed with ragged, much worn, or soiled garments. "The dean was so shabby." Swift.

Etymology [See Shab, n., Scabby, and Scab.]

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

Sanskrit

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