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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slobber

/ˈslɒbə(ɹ)/ noun, verb

Also a form of slabber

Forms slobbers slobbering slobbered

  1. noun Liquid material, generally saliva, that dribbles or drools outward and downward from the mouth. “There was dried slobber on his coat lapel.”
  2. noun (uncommon) A dribbly shower (of rain).
  3. noun Mud, muck; a miry, slushy or muddy mixture.
  4. noun (dated) A jellyfish.
  5. verb To allow saliva or liquid to run from one's mouth. “All babies slobber.”
  6. verb (of spit, rain, etc) To fall thickly (viscously), like or as saliva.
  7. verb (uncommon) To wet with or as if with saliva; to coat with dribbly liquid.
  8. verb (colloquial) To kiss.
  9. verb (slang, transitive) To fellate.

Synonyms

drool slaver dribble drivel slabber

Etymology

From Middle English sloberen, borrowed from Middle Dutch slobberen (> Modern Dutch slobberen (“to slobber”)), related to West Frisian slobberje (“to slurp”), German Low German slubbern (“to slobber”). Doublet of slabber and slaver. Compare also German schlabbern (“to slobber”). At least in the sense of "saliva", apparently not related to English slob, from Irish slaba (“mud”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb See Slabber.
  2. noun See Slabber.
  3. noun A jellyfish. [Prov. Eng.]

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