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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squirt

UK /skwɜːt/ · US /skwɝt/ noun, verb

Forms squirts squirting squirted

  1. noun An instrument from which a liquid is forcefully ejected in a small, quick stream.
  2. noun A small, quick stream; a jet. “a squirt of body lotion”
  3. noun (hydrodynamics) The whole system of flow in the vicinity of a source.
  4. noun A burst of noise.
  5. noun (slang) An annoyingly pretentious person; a whippersnapper.
  6. noun (UK, Ireland, US, Australia, New Zealand, Philippines, slang) A small child. “Hey squirt! Where you been?”
  7. noun (vulgar slang, uncountable) Female ejaculate.
  8. noun (informal) An act of urination. “Excuse me, I need to take a squirt.”
  9. verb (intransitive, of a liquid) To be thrown out, or ejected, in a rapid stream, from a narrow orifice. “The toothpaste squirted from the tube.”
  10. verb (transitive, of a liquid) To cause to be ejected, in a rapid stream, from a narrow orifice.
  11. verb (transitive, by extension) To emit, eject, or excrete (something).
  12. verb (transitive) To hit with a rapid stream of liquid.
  13. verb (transitive, figuratively, obsolete) To throw out or utter words rapidly; to prate.
  14. verb (intransitive, vulgar slang, of a female) To ejaculate.
  15. verb To forcefully maneuver against the current so that the end of a kayak is forced nearly vertical.
  16. verb (transitive, Internet slang) To 3D print (a firearm, or a part thereof).

Synonyms

ankle-biter pip-squeak small fry jet spurt spirt force out squeeze out eject

Etymology

From Middle English squirten, squyrten, of uncertain origin; probably onomatopoeic. Akin to swirl. Compare Low German swirtjen (“to squirt”) and Swedish water onomatopoeias skvala, skvalp, skvimpa, and skvätta; Icelandic skvetta; and Norwegian skvette.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To drive or eject in a stream out of a narrow pipe or orifice; as, to squirt water.
  2. verb To be thrown out, or ejected, in a rapid stream, from a narrow orifice; --said of liquids.
  3. verb Hence, to throw out or utter words rapidly; to prate. [Low]
  4. noun An instrument out of which a liquid is ejected in a small stream with force. Young.

Etymology [Cf. LG. swirtjen to squirt, OSw. sqvätta, E. squander.]

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