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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skulk

/skʌlk/ noun, verb

Forms skulks skulking skulked

  1. noun (collective) A group of foxes.
  2. noun (figurative) A group of people seen as being fox-like (e.g. cunning, dishonest, or having nefarious plans).
  3. noun The act of moving in a stealthy or furtive way.
  4. noun A stealthy or furtive gait or way of moving.
  5. noun The act of avoiding an obligation or responsibility.
  6. noun (obsolete, chiefly nautical, military) One who avoids an obligation or responsibility.
  7. verb To stay where one cannot be seen, conceal oneself (often in a cowardly way or with the intent of doing harm).
  8. verb To move in a stealthy or furtive way; to come or go while trying to avoid detection.
  9. verb To avoid an obligation or responsibility.

Synonyms

shirk shirker skulker hide sneak steal lurk malinger

Etymology

From Middle English sculke, skulke, sculken, of North Germanic origin; compare Danish skulke (“shirk”), Swedish skolka (“play truant”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To hide, or get out of the way, in a sneaking manner; to lie close, or to move in a furtive way; to lurk. "Want skulks in holes and crevices." W. C. Bryant.
  2. noun A number of foxes together. Wright.
  3. noun One who, or that which, skulks.

Etymology [Of Scand. origin; cf. Dan. skulke to spare or save one's self, to play the truant, Sw. skolka to be at leisure, to shirk, Icel. skolla. Cf. Scowl.]

Etymology [Cf. Icel. skollr, skolli, a fox, and E. skulk, v.i.]

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