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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shuck

/ʃʌk/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms shucks shucking shucked shock

  1. noun The shell or husk, especially of grains (e.g. corn/maize) or nuts (e.g. walnuts).
  2. noun (slang, African-American Vernacular) A fraud; a scam.
  3. noun (slang) A phony.
  4. verb (transitive) To remove the shuck from (walnuts, oysters, etc.). “Shall we shuck walnuts?”
  5. verb (transitive) To remove (any outer covering). “I will shuck my clothes and dive naked into the pool.”
  6. verb (computing, slang, transitive) To remove (an external hard drive or solid-state drive) from its casing so that it can be used inside another device.
  7. verb (transitive, intransitive, slang) To fool; to hoax.
  8. verb (dialectal) To shake; shiver.
  9. verb (dialectal) To slither or slip, move about, wriggle.
  10. verb (dialectal) To do hurriedly or in a restless way.
  11. verb (dialectal) To avoid; baffle, outwit, shirk.
  12. verb (dialectal, of a horse) To walk at a slow trot.
  13. noun (European folklore) A supernatural and generally malevolent black dog in English folklore.
  14. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

padfoot shriker chaff husk stalk straw stubble

Etymology

Origin unknown. Possibly a dialectal survival of unrecorded Middle English *schulk(e), *schullok (“small shell”); either from Old English *sċylluc, *sċylloc, diminutive of Old English sċyll (“shell”), or alternatively created in Middle English from Middle English schulle, schelle (“shell, husk, pod”) + -ok, making it equivalent to shell + -ock (diminutive suffix) or shell + -k (diminutive suffix).

From a dialectal variant of shock.

Possibly from Middle English shucke, schucke (“demon, monster”), from Old English sċucca (“an evil spirit”).

* As an English surname, from Old English scucca (“evil spirit”).
* As a German andJewish surname, Americanized from Schuck.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A shock of grain. [Prev.Eng.]
  2. noun A shell, husk, or pod; especially, the outer covering of such nuts as the hickory nut, butternut, peanut, and chestnut.
  3. noun The shell of an oyster or clam. [U. S.]
  4. verb To deprive of the shucks or husks; as, to shuck walnuts, Indian corn, oysters, etc.

Etymology [Perhaps akin to G. shote a husk, pod, shell.]

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