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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barmy

UK /ˈbɑːmi/ · US /ˈbɑɹmi/ adjective, noun

Forms barmier barmiest barmies barmi barmie

  1. adjective (also figuratively) Containing, covered with, or pertaining to barm (“foam rising upon beer or other malt liquors when fermenting, used as leaven in brewing and making bread”).
  2. adjective (figuratively) Bubbling with activity or excitement; active, excited.
  3. adjective Crazy, mad; also, eccentric, odd, strange.
  4. adjective Very foolish.
  5. noun (informal) bar mitzvah

Synonyms

balmy dotty goofy wacko aberrant abnormal anomalous bizarre crackpot cranky eccentric eccentrical erratic excentrical extraordinary far-out freakish heteroclite idiocentric idiosyncratic zestful yeasty zesty bats batty bonkers buggy cracked crackers daft

Antonyms

average medial basic bog-standard common commonplace common-and-garden common-or-garden congruent consistent conventional customary

Etymology

From barm (“foam rising upon beer or other malt liquors when fermenting, and used as leaven”) + -y (suffix meaning ‘having the quality of’ forming adjectives). Barm is derived from Middle English berm, berme (“foam rising upon ale or beer fermenting; leaven, yeast; foam or head of beer produced by pouring”) [and other forms], from Old English beorma (“foam or head of beer; leaven, yeast”), from Proto-West Germanic *bermō (“barm; yeast”); further etymology uncertain, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁- (“to boil; to brew”) or *gʷʰer- (“warm; hot”).

Probably an alteration of balmy (“foolish; slightly crazy or mad, eccentric”), influenced by barm (“foam rising upon beer or other malt liquors when fermenting, and used as leaven”) (see etymology 1).

Clipping of bar mitzvah.

Borrowed from Russian бармы (barmy).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Full of barm or froth; in a ferment. "Barmy beer." Dryden.
  2. adjective Full of barm or froth; in a ferment. "Barmy beer." Dryden.

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