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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bender

UK /ˈbɛndə/ · US /ˈbɛndɚ/ noun, interjection, proper noun

Forms benders Bendery

  1. noun One who, or that which, bends.
  2. noun A device to aid bending of pipes to a specific angle.
  3. noun (slang) A bout of heavy drinking or drug use. “He's been out on a bender with his mates.”
  4. noun (chiefly UK, slang, derogatory) A homosexual man.
  5. noun A simple shelter, made using flexible branches or withies.
  6. noun (UK, slang) A suspended sentence.
  7. noun (obsolete, UK, slang) A sixpence.
  8. noun (obsolete, slang, US) A spree, a frolic.
  9. interjection (obsolete, British slang) Used to express disbelief or doubt at what one has just heard.
  10. interjection (obsolete, British slang) Used to indicate that the previous phrase was meant sarcastically or ironically. “O yes, I'll do it — bender!”
  11. proper noun A surname.
  12. proper noun A city and municipality of Moldova, under de-facto control of Transnistria.

Synonyms

batter binge spree toot male homosexual bender tent bullshit I don't think not over the bender over the left over the left shoulder Tighina carouse carousal booze-up curve curve ball breaking ball

Etymology

* bend + -er. In sense of “heavy drinking”, originally generally “spree”, from 1846, of uncertain origin – vague contemporary sense of “something extraordinary”, connection to bend (e.g., bending elbow to drink (bend one's elbow)) or perhaps from Scottish sense of “strong drinker”.
* In Britain, for about four centuries, a sixpence was known as a bender because its silver content made it easy to bend in the hands. This was commonly done to create ‘love tokens’, many of which survive in collections to this day. The value of a sixpence was also enough to get thoroughly inebriated as taverns would often allow you to drink all day for two pence. This gave rise to the expression ‘going on a bender’.
* (interjection): From over the bender, referring to a person's arm (and sometimes accompanied by a gesture of the thumb backward over the shoulder); compare over the left shoulder.

From bender; the name was given to someone who bent things.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who, or that which, bends.
  2. noun An instrument used for bending.

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