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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

skeet

/skiːt/ noun, verb

Forms skeets skeeting skeeted

  1. noun (uncountable) A form of trapshooting using clay targets to simulate birds in flight.
  2. noun (countable, poker) A hand consisting of a 9, a 5, a 2, and two other cards lower than 9.
  3. noun (uncountable, slang, African-American Vernacular) The ejaculation of semen.
  4. noun (countable, Newfoundland, Labrador, slang) A young working-class person who may be loud, disruptive and poorly educated.
  5. verb (ambitransitive, of fluids) To shoot or spray.
  6. verb (African-American Vernacular, vulgar slang) To ejaculate.
  7. noun (obsolete) A long-handled shovel or scoop.
  8. noun (nautical) A scoop with a long handle, used to wash the sides of a vessel and formerly to wet the sails or deck.
  9. verb (nautical, dated) To wet the sails or deck of a vessel.
  10. noun (Isle of Man) news or gossip
  11. verb (Isle of Man) to spy through the front windows of somebody else's house
  12. noun (Internet slang) A post on the Bluesky social media platform.
  13. verb (Internet slang) To create a skeet.

Synonyms

squirt skeet shooting trapshooting

Etymology

Pseudo-archaic alteration of shoot, perhaps with reference to Old Norse skjóta; compare Scots skite (“to dart, to shoot”). The name for a form of trapshooting is attested from the 1920s, see quotations below. Senses related to ejaculation of semen likely derive from this, but compare also squirt, skite, or scoot. The word skeet is attested in reference to working class persons in US English from the 19th century, or the Newfoundland and Labrador regionalism may derive from other terms such as skite or skeeter; see quotation below.

Unknown. Compare Icelandic skeið (“spoon”), from Old Norse skeið (“a sheath”). Attested from the 15th century; see quotation below.

Uncertain. Compare Manx skeetagh (“nosy”, adverb). Compare also English peek (“to look slyly; a quick glance”, verb or noun) or skit (“to caper; to be skittish”, verb).

Blend of sky + tweet, from the resemblance to tweets posted on Twitter. Strongly discouraged by CEO Jay Graber.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A scoop with a long handle, used to wash the sides of a vessel, and formerly to wet the sails or deck.

Etymology [Etymol. uncertain.]

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