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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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strut

/stɹʌt/ verb, noun, adjective

Forms struts strutting strutted struttest struttedst strutteth strout

  1. verb (intransitive) Of a peacock or other fowl: to stand or walk stiffly, with the tail erect and spread out.
  2. verb (intransitive, by extension, also figuratively) To walk haughtily or proudly with one's head held high. “He strutted about the yard, thinking himself master of all he surveyed.”
  3. verb (transitive, by extension) To walk across or on (a stage or other place) haughtily or proudly.
  4. verb (intransitive, obsolete) Often followed by out: to protuberate or stick out due to being full or swollen; to bulge, to swell.
  5. verb (transitive, obsolete) Often followed by out: to cause (something) to bulge, protrude, or swell.
  6. noun (also figuratively) A step or walk done stiffly and with the head held high, often due to haughtiness or pride; affected dignity in walking.
  7. noun (historical) An instrument for adjusting the pleats of a ruff.
  8. noun (chiefly construction) A beam or rod providing support.
  9. noun An act of strutting (“bracing or supporting (something) by a strut or struts (sense 1); attaching diagonally; bending at a sharp angle”); specifically, deviation (of the spoke of a wheel) from the normal position.
  10. verb (transitive, chiefly construction, also figuratively) To brace or support (something) by a strut or struts; to hold (something) in place or strengthen by a diagonal, transverse, or upright support.
  11. verb (intransitive) To be attached diagonally or at a slant; also, to be bent at a sharp angle.
  12. adjective (obsolete) Swelling out due to being full; bulging, protuberant, swollen.
  13. adjective (Scotland, obsolete) Drunk, intoxicated; fou.

Synonyms

swagger high-side aura farm boulevardier cut a wide swath cut it fat cut round exhibitionize figure away flamboast flaunt flex floss fluff one's feathers gallery let one's nuts hang ostent ostentate preen showboat prance tittup ruffle sashay cock

Antonyms

clearheaded dry on the wagon sober sober as a judge stone-cold sober undrunken unintoxicated

Etymology

The verb is derived from Middle English strouten, struten (“to bulge, swell; to protrude, stick out; to bluster, threaten; to object forcefully; to create a disturbance; to fight; to display one's clothes in a proud or vain manner”) [and other forms], from Old English strūtian (“to project out; stand out stiffly; to exert oneself, struggle”), from Proto-Germanic *strūtōną, *strūtijaną (“to be puffed up, swell”), from Proto-Indo-European *streudʰ- (“rigid, stiff”), from *(s)ter- (“firm; strong; rigid, stiff”).
The English word is cognate with Danish strutte (“to bulge, bristle”), Low German strutt (“stiff”), Middle High German striuzen (“to bristle; to ruffle”) (modern German strotzen (“to bristle up”), sträußen (obsolete, except in Alemannic)); and compare Gothic 𐌸𐍂𐌿𐍄𐍃𐍆𐌹𐌻𐌻 (þrutsfill, “leprosy”), Old Norse þrútinn (“swollen”).
The noun is derived from the verb. Noun sense 2 (“instrument for adjusting the pleats of a ruff”) appears to be due to a misreading of a 16th-century work which used the word stroout (strouted (“caused (something) to bulge, protrude, or swell; strutted”)).

The origin of sense 1 of the noun (“beam or rod providing support”) is unknown; it is probably ultimately from Proto-Germanic *strūtōną, *strūtijaną (“to be puffed up, swell”): see further at etymology 1. The English word is cognate with Icelandic strútur (“hood jutting out like a horn”), Low German strutt (“rigid, stiff”), Norwegian strut (“nozzle, spout”), Swedish strut (“paper cornet”).
The verb is derived from sense 1 of the noun.
Sense 2 of the noun (“act of strutting”) is derived from the verb: see above.

Probably an archaic past participle of strut (“to (cause something to) bulge, protrude, or swell”), now replaced by strutted: see etymology 1.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To swell; to bulge out. [R.]
  2. verb To walk with a lofty, proud gait, and erect head; to walk with affected dignity.
  3. noun The act of strutting; a pompous step or walk.
  4. noun In general, any piece of a frame which resists thrust or pressure in the direction of its own length. See Brace, and Illust.

Etymology [OE. struten, strouten, to swell; akin to G. strozen to be swelled, to be puffed up, to strut, Dan. strutte.]

Etymology [For senses 2 & 3 cf. LG. strutt rigid.]

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