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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spoof

/spuːf/ noun, adjective, verb

Forms spoofs spoofing spoofed

  1. noun (countable) An act of deception; a hoax; a joking prank.
  2. noun (computing) A cyberattack involving deception via impersonated identities; a digital asset used in such an attack. “Don't click anything on that website! That whole site is a spoof! Call IT right now.”
  3. noun (countable) A light parody.
  4. noun (countable, UK, historical) A drinking game in which players hold up to three (or another specified number of) coins hidden in a fist and attempt to guess the total number of coins held.
  5. noun (uncountable) Nonsense.
  6. noun (mathematics) A constructed number or solution that saitisfies a set of conditions only when one of its rules are relaxed.
  7. adjective Fake, hoax.
  8. verb (transitive) To gently satirize.
  9. verb (transitive) To deceive.
  10. verb (ambitransitive, computing) To falsify; especially, to falsify identities by impersonating for scamming purposes. “The fraudsters convincingly spoofed a Microsoft webpage and then invited their victims to click various links found there.”
  11. noun (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Semen.
  12. verb (Australia, New Zealand, slang) To ejaculate, to come.

Synonyms

parody satire send-up sendup send up spunk spooge cum jizz jizzum jism gism nut junk semen ejaculate lampoon mockery takeoff burlesque travesty charade pasquinade put-on

Etymology

Coined by English comedian Arthur Roberts in 1884 as the name of a card game involving deception and nonsense.

Origin unknown; perhaps imitative of the spurting of a viscous liquid. Compare splooge, spoo (US slang), spooge, spaff.

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