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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shack

/ʃæk/ noun, verb, proper noun

Also a form of shag

Forms shacks shacking shacked

  1. noun A crude, roughly built hut or cabin.
  2. noun Any poorly constructed or poorly furnished building.
  3. noun (slang) The room from which a ham radio operator transmits.
  4. verb To live (in or with); to shack up.
  5. noun (obsolete) Grain fallen to the ground and left after harvest.
  6. noun (obsolete) Nuts which have fallen to the ground.
  7. noun (obsolete) Freedom to pasturage in order to feed upon shack.
  8. noun (UK, US, dialect, obsolete) A shiftless fellow; a low, itinerant beggar; a vagabond; a tramp.
  9. noun (fishing) Bait that can be picked up at sea.
  10. noun (Nigeria, slang) A drink, especially an alcoholic one.
  11. verb (obsolete) To shed or fall, as corn or grain at harvest.
  12. verb (obsolete) To feed in stubble, or upon waste.
  13. verb (UK, dialect) To wander as a vagabond or tramp.
  14. verb (US, intransitive) To hibernate; to go into winter quarters.
  15. verb (Nigeria, slang) To drink, especially alcohol.
  16. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

hovel shanty camp hut hutch reside domicile domiciliate trail

Etymology

Unknown. Some scholars derive this word from Mexican Spanish jacal, from Nahuatl xacalli (“adobe hut”).
Alternatively, the word may instead come from ramshackle/ramshackly (e.g., old ramshackly house) or perhaps it may be a back-formation from shackly.
Compare Tavringer Romani hak (“place, house”), Traveller Norwegian hak (“place”).

Obsolete variant of shake. Compare Scots shag (“refuse of barley or oats”).

From shagged or shagged out.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To shed or fall, as corn or grain at harvest. [Prov. Eng.] Grose.
  2. verb To feed in stubble, or upon waste corn. [Prov. Eng.]
  3. noun The grain left after harvest or gleaning; also, nuts which have fallen to the ground. [Prov. Eng.]
  4. noun Liberty of winter pasturage. [Prov. Eng.]

Etymology [Prov. E., to shake, to shed. See Shake.]

Etymology [Cf. Scot. shag refuse of barley or oats.]

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