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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snapper

/ˈsnæpɚ/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms snappers snappering snappered schnapper

  1. noun One who, or that which, snaps. “a snapper-up of bargains”
  2. noun (Australia, New Zealand) The fish Chrysophrys auratus, especially an adult of the species.
  3. noun (US) Any of the family Lutjanidae of percoid fishes, especially the red snapper.
  4. noun (US) A small bluefish.
  5. noun (Ireland, slang) A (human) baby.
  6. noun (American football) The player who snaps the ball to start the play.
  7. noun (US) Small, paper-wrapped item containing a minute quantity of explosive composition coated on small bits of sand, which explodes noisily when thrown onto a hard surface.
  8. noun (slang) One who takes snaps; a photographer.
  9. verb To stumble, to trip.
  10. verb (figuratively) To fall into error; to make a mistake, and especially to stumble morally.
  11. noun A stumble, a trip.
  12. noun An error, a blunder, especially a moral slip-up.
  13. proper noun A hamlet in Goodleigh parish, North Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SS5934).

Synonyms

center cracker cracker bonbon Chrysophrys auratus common snapping turtle Chelydra serpentina

Antonyms

anti-snapper

Etymology

From Middle English snaperen, likely formed with the frequentative suffix -eren (Modern English -er). For the stem compare Norwegian Nynorsk snåva (“to stumble”), Swedish snäva (“to stumble”), obsolete German schnappen (“to totter, to limp”), Middle High German snaben, Middle Low German snaven (“to stumble”).

Named after the former "Snapper" Inn.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who, or that which, snaps; as, a snapper up of trifles; the snapper of a whip.
  2. noun Any one of several species of large sparoid food fishes of the genus Lutjanus, abundant on the southern coasts of the United States and on both coasts of tropical America.

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