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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slop

UK /slɒp/ · US /slɑp/ noun, adjective, verb

Forms slops slopping slopped

  1. noun (obsolete) A loose outer garment; a jacket or overall.
  2. noun (South Africa, chiefly in the plural) A flip-flop.
  3. adjective (obsolete) Being or relating to slops (cheap or ready-made clothing).
  4. noun (uncountable) Any semisolid substance; goo, paste, pulp.
  5. noun Soft, liquid mud or snow.
  6. noun Liquid carelessly spilled upon a surface; a soiled spot.
  7. noun (often in the plural) Any inferior, weak, or unappetizing drink or semi-liquid food.
  8. noun (often in the plural) Scraps used as food for animals, especially pigs or hogs.
  9. noun (dated) Human urine or excrement.
  10. noun (often in the plural) Domestic wastewater.
  11. noun (slang) Fellatio.
  12. verb (transitive) To spill or dump liquid upon; to soil with a spilled liquid. “I slopped water all over my shirt.”
  13. verb (transitive, games) In a game of pool or snooker, to pocket a ball by accident; in billiards, to make an ill-considered shot.
  14. verb (transitive) To feed pigs.
  15. verb (intransitive) To make one's way through soggy terrain.
  16. noun (uncommon, costermongers) A policeman.

Synonyms

beach sandal chancla go-ahead jandal plugger thong zori slush mire hogwash swill sloppy toppy garbage tripe rubbish cheapie crapola gash hunk of junk load of bull slops pigswill pigwash treacle mush glop spill splatter squelch squish

Etymology

From Middle English slop, sloppe, slope, from Old English *slop (found in oferslop (“an outergarment, surplice”)). Cognate with Icelandic sloppur (“a long, loose gown”).

Probably from Middle English *sloppe (attested in plural form sloppes), representing Old English *sloppe (attested in cūsloppe), alternative form of Old English slyppe. Related to slip.

Alteration of ecilop, back slang for police.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Water or other liquid carelessly spilled or thrown aboyt, as upon a table or a floor; a puddle; a soiled spot.
  2. noun Mean and weak drink or liquid food; --usually in the plural.
  3. verb To cause to overflow, as a liquid, by the motion of the vessel containing it; to spill.
  4. verb To spill liquid upon; to soil with a liquid spilled.

Etymology [OE. sloppe a pool; akin to As. sloppe, slyppe, the sloppy droppings of a cow; cf. AS. sl to slip, and E. slip, v.i. Cf. Cowslip.]

Etymology [AS. slop a frock or over-garment, fr. sl to slip, to slide; akin to Icel sloppr a thin garment; cf. OHG. slouf a garment. Cf. Slip, v. i.]

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