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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stunt

/stʌnt/ noun, verb

Forms stunts stunting stunted

  1. noun A daring or dangerous feat, often involving the display of gymnastic skills.
  2. noun An act or activity viewed as the outcome of a plan or scheme, often malicious or nefarious.
  3. noun (archaic) A skill.
  4. noun (American football) A special means of rushing the quarterback done to confuse the opposing team's offensive line.
  5. verb (intransitive, cheerleading) To perform a stunt.
  6. verb (intransitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) To show off; to posture; to flaunt valuables.
  7. verb (transitive) To check or hinder the growth or development of. “Some have said smoking stunts your growth.”
  8. noun A check in growth.
  9. noun (countable) That which has been checked in growth; a stunted animal or thing.
  10. noun (countable) A two-year-old whale, which, having been weaned, is lean and yields little blubber.

Synonyms

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

Etymology

Unknown. Compare Middle Low German stunt (“a shoulder grip with which you throw someone on their back”), Middle English stunt (“foolish; stupid”).

From dialectal stunt (“stubborn, dwarfed”), from Middle English stont, stunt (“short, brief”), from Old English stunt (“stupid, foolish, simple”), from Proto-Germanic *stuntaz (“short, compact, stupid, dull”). Cognate with Middle High German stunz (“short”), Old Norse stuttr (“short in stature, dwarfed”). Related to Old English styntan (“to make dull, stupefy, become dull, repress”). More at stint.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To hinder from growing to the natural size; to prevent the growth of; to stint, to dwarf; as, to stunt a child; to stunt a plant.
  2. noun A check in growth; also, that which has been checked in growth; a stunted animal or thing.
  3. noun Specifically: A whale two years old, which, having been weaned, is lean, and yields but little blubber.

Etymology [See Stint.]

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