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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skinny

/ˈskɪni/ adjective, noun, verb

Forms skinnier skinniest skinnies skinnying skinnied

  1. adjective (informal) Thin, generally in a negative sense (as opposed to slim, which is thin in a positive sense). “Her recent weight loss has made her look rather skinny than slender”
  2. adjective (informal) Of food or a beverage, having reduced fat or calories. “skinny flat white”
  3. adjective Naked; nude (chiefly used in the phrase skinny dipping).
  4. adjective (of clothing) Tight-fitting. “skinny jeans”
  5. adjective (golf) Synonym of thin (“type of shot where the ball is struck by the bottom part of the club head”).
  6. noun (colloquial) The details or facts; especially, those obtained by gossip or rumor. “She called to get the skinny on the latest goings-on in the club.”
  7. noun A state of nakedness; nudity.
  8. noun (informal) A low-fat serving of coffee.
  9. noun (nonstandard) A skinny being.
  10. noun An obstacle for a horse to jump over, consisting of a narrow fence.
  11. verb (transitive, informal) To reduce or cut down.

Synonyms

thin scraggy boney scrawny underweight weedy tight-fitting tightfitting tight fitting tightly fitting cheeseparing close near penny-pinching

Etymology

From Middle English skinny (“resembling skin”), equivalent to skin + -y. The meaning associated with lack of fat or muscle possibly derives from the phrase skin and bones; the meaning associated with nudity refers to the exposed skin.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Consisting, or chiefly consisting, of skin; wanting flesh. "Her skinny lips." Shak.

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

Sanskrit

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