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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snug

/snʌɡ/ adjective, noun, verb, proper noun

Forms snugger snuggest snugs snugging snugged

  1. adjective Warm and comfortable; cosy. “I felt snug tucked up in my snug bed.”
  2. adjective Satisfactory.
  3. adjective Close-fitting.
  4. adjective Close; concealed; not exposed to notice.
  5. noun (UK) A small, comfortable back room in a pub.
  6. noun (engineering) A lug.
  7. verb (transitive) To make secure or snug.
  8. verb To snuggle or nestle.
  9. verb (transitive) To make smooth.
  10. proper noun A suburb of the Huon Valley council area and the Kingborough council area, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

Synonyms

comfy cosy cushy gemütlich acceptable good enough adequate all right average close enough close enough for government work close enough for horseshoes and hand grenades decent favoursome fair fine jake good enough for government work hunky dory kosher cubby cubbyhole snuggery close close-fitting cozy

Etymology

From dialectal English snug (“tight, handsome”), perhaps from Old Norse snøggr, from Proto-Germanic *snawwuz (“short, quick, fast”). Compare Icelandic snöggur (“smooth”), Danish snög (“neat”), Swedish snygg (“handsome, nice-looking”). Compare also English snudge (“to nestle, remain snug and quiet”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Close and warm; as, an infant lies snug.
  2. adjective Close; concealed; not exposed to notice.
  3. noun Same as Lug, n., 3.
  4. verb To lie close; to snuggle; to snudge; --often with up, or together; as, a child snugs up to its mother.

Etymology [Prov. E. snug tight, handsome; cf. Icel. snöggr smooth, ODan. snög neat, Sw. snugg.]

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