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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

squeezer

noun

Forms squeezers

  1. noun Someone or something that squeezes. “I made juice with a lemon squeezer.”
  2. noun A piece of foundry apparatus for shaping a ball of puddled iron.
  3. noun A playing card that has its value shown in a corner such that a closely arranged hand may be studied (originally designed for poker but now standard).
  4. noun Someone or something that coerces; one who puts the squeeze on someone.
  5. noun (slang, US, Canada) A hand job, an instance of male masturbation, or manual sex performed on a man.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who, or that which, squeezes; as, a lemon squeezer.
  2. noun (a) A machine like a large pair of pliers, for shingling, or squeezing, the balls of metal when puddled; --used only in the plural.

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