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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tacky

/ˈtæki/ adjective

Forms tackier tackiest tackies

  1. adjective Of a substance, slightly sticky. “This paint isn't dry yet; it's still a bit tacky.”
  2. adjective (colloquial) Of low quality. “That market stall sells all sorts of tacky ornaments.”
  3. adjective (colloquial) In poor taste. “That was a tacky thing to say.”
  4. adjective Gaudy or flashy.
  5. adjective Shabby, dowdy in one's appearance or dress.

Synonyms

flashy showy garish dowdy brassy cheap flash gaudy gimcrack loud meretricious tatty tawdry trashy

Etymology

From tack + -y.

Sense “in poor taste” from 1888, from earlier sense meaning shabby or seedy. Also see tackey (“neglected horse”), Southern US colloquialism from 1800s, later extended to people.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Sticky; adhesive; raw; --said of paint, varnish, etc., when not well dried. [U. S.]

Etymology [Cf. Techy, Tack a spot.]

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