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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souse

/saʊs/ noun, verb, adverb

Forms souses sousing soused

  1. noun The pickled ears, feet, etc., of swine.
  2. noun (US, Appalachia) Pickled scrapple.
  3. noun (Caribbean) Pickled or boiled ears and feet of a pig
  4. noun A pickle made with salt.
  5. noun The ear; especially, a hog's ear.
  6. noun The act of sousing; a plunging into water.
  7. noun A drunkard.
  8. verb (transitive) To immerse in liquid; to steep or drench.
  9. verb (transitive) To steep in brine; to pickle.
  10. noun The act of sousing, or swooping.
  11. noun A heavy blow.
  12. verb (now dialectal, transitive) To strike, beat.
  13. verb (now dialectal, intransitive) To fall heavily.
  14. verb (obsolete, transitive) To pounce upon.
  15. adverb (now rare, dialectal) Suddenly, without warning.
  16. noun (obsolete) A sou (the French coin).
  17. noun (dated) A small amount.

Synonyms

alcoholic sot suck-pint alky dipsomaniac boozer lush soaker drenching soaking sousing drench douse dowse soak sop dunk dip plunge inebriate hit it up

Etymology

From Middle English souse (“to salt pickle”) also a noun (“liquid for pickling,” “pickled pig parts”), from Old French sous (“preserved in salt”), from Frankish *sultija (“saltwater, brine”), from Proto-Germanic *sultijō (“saltwater, brine”). Cognate with Old Saxon sultia (“saltwater”), Old High German sulza (“brine”).

Obscure origin. Compare Middle German sûs (“noise”).

Borrowed from French, from Old French sous (plural of sout), from Latin solidus. Compare solidus (“gold coin of the late Roman empire”).

First appeared online during the Bush administration.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A corrupt form of Sou. [Obs.] Colman, the Elder.
  2. noun Pickle made with salt.
  3. noun Something kept or steeped in pickle; esp., the pickled ears, feet, etc., of swine.
  4. verb To steep in pickle; to pickle. "A soused gurnet." Shak.

Etymology [OF. sausse. See Sauce.]

Etymology [Cf. F. saucer to wet with sauce. See Souse pickle.]

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