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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spatter

/ˈspætɚ/ verb, noun

Forms spatters spattering spattered

  1. verb (transitive) To splash (someone or something) with small droplets. “When my wet chihuahua shook himself, I was spattered with smelly water.”
  2. verb (transitive, figuratively) To cover, or lie upon (something) by having been scattered, as if by splashing.
  3. verb (transitive) To distribute (a liquid) by sprinkling; to sprinkle around. “to spatter blood”
  4. verb (transitive, figurative) To send out or disperse (something) as if in droplets.
  5. verb (intransitive) To send out small droplets; to splash in small droplets (on or against something). “Make sure the pieces of fish are dry before you put them into the hot oil so that it doesn’t spatter.”
  6. verb (obsolete, transitive, figurative) To injure by aspersion; to defame.
  7. noun A spray or shower of droplets hitting a surface.
  8. noun A spot or spots of a substance spattered on a surface. “There was what looked like a spatter of blood on one wall.”
  9. noun The sound of droplets hitting a surface.
  10. noun (figuratively) A burst or series of sounds resembling the sound of droplets hitting a surface.
  11. noun (figuratively) A collection of objects scattered like droplets splashed onto a surface.

Synonyms

spurt strew asperge asperse besprinkle sprinkle denigrate muddy assassinate backbite badmouth befoul belibel besmirch besmear bewray blacken blame blaze blemish spattering splatter splattering sputter splutter sputtering splash splashing plash splosh

Etymology

Probably from Middle Low German or Dutch spatten (“to spout, burst”) + -er (frequentative suffix). Related to spit (“saliva”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To sprinkle with a liquid or with any wet substance, as water, mud, or the like; to make wet of foul spots upon by sprinkling; as, to spatter a coat; to spatter the floor; to spatter boots with mud. Upon any occasion he is to be spattered over with the blood of his people. Burke.
  2. verb To distribute by sprinkling; to sprinkle around; as, to spatter blood. Pope.
  3. verb To throw something out of the mouth in a scattering manner; to sputter.

Etymology [From the root of spit salvia.]

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