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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snarf

/snɑː(ɹ)f/ verb

Forms snarfs snarfing snarfed

  1. verb (transitive, slang) To eat or consume greedily. “He snarfed a whole bag of chips in a couple of minutes!”
  2. verb (transitive, slang) To take something by dubious means, but without the connotations of stealing; to take something without regard to etiquette. “I snarfed a bunch of freebies from the vendor's booth when he wasn't looking.”
  3. verb (transitive, slang, computing) To slurp (computing slang sense); to load in entirely; to copy as a whole. “I snarfed the whole database into my program.”
  4. verb (transitive, slang, computing, by extension) To fetch (in general).

Synonyms

pilfer cabbage purloin pinch abstract swipe hook sneak filch nobble lift

Etymology

Probably of imitative origin. Alternatively, perhaps a blend of snack + scarf or snort + scarf. First attested in 1963.

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 — from the Wiktionary entry “snarf”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details