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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slag

/ˈslæɡ/ noun, verb

Forms slags slagging slagged

  1. noun Waste material from a mine.
  2. noun Scum that forms on the surface of molten metal.
  3. noun Impurities formed and separated out when a metal is smelted from ore; vitrified cinders.
  4. noun Hard aggregate remaining as a residue from blast furnaces, sometimes used as a surfacing material.
  5. noun Scoria associated with a volcano.
  6. noun (UK, Ireland, Australia, slang, derogatory) A prostitute or promiscuous woman; a slut.
  7. noun (UK, Ireland, derogatory, dated) A coward.
  8. noun (UK, Ireland, chiefly Cockney, derogatory) A contemptible person, a scumbag.
  9. verb (transitive) To produce slag.
  10. verb (intransitive) To become slag; to agglomerate when heated below the fusion point.
  11. verb (transitive) To reduce to slag.
  12. verb (transitive, UK, slang) To talk badly about; to malign or denigrate (someone).
  13. verb (transitive, Ireland, slang) To make fun of; to take the piss (tease, ridicule or mock).
  14. verb (intransitive, Australia, slang) To spit.

Synonyms

goafing gobbin mullock dross recrement scoria clinker hussy skank 304 alley cat alleycat amorette amoret amorosa article Athanasian wench blowsabella bop chippy

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Low German slagge, slaggen (“slag, dross”), from Old Saxon *slaggo, from Proto-West Germanic *slaggō, from Proto-Germanic *slaggô, from Proto-Germanic *slagōną (“to strike”) + *-gô (diminutive suffix). Compare Middle Low German slāgen (“to strike”), since originally the splinters struck off from the metal by hammering, from *slagōn, from Proto-West Germanic *slagōn. Compare also Old Saxon slegi, from Proto-West Germanic *slagi.
See also Dutch slak, German Schlacke, Swedish slagg; also compare English slay.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The dross, or recrement, of a metal; also, vitrified cinders.
  2. noun The scoria of a volcano. Slag furnace, or Slag hearth (Metal.), a furnace, or hearth, for extracting lead from slags or poor ore. -- Slag wool, mineral wool. See under Mineral.

Etymology [Sw. slagg, or LG. slacke, whence G. schlacke; originally, perhaps, the splinters struck off from the metal by hammering. See Slay, v. t.]

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