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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toot

UK /ˈtuːt/ · US /ˈtut/ noun, verb

Forms toots tooting tooted

  1. noun (countable) The noise of a horn or whistle. “He gave a little toot of the horn, to get their attention.”
  2. noun (by extension, countable, informal) A fart; flatus.
  3. noun (uncountable, slang) Cocaine.
  4. noun (countable, slang) A portion of cocaine that a person snorts.
  5. noun (informal) A spree of drunkenness.
  6. noun (uncountable, informal) Rubbish; tat. “I'm not paying fifty pounds for this load of old toot!”
  7. noun (countable, social media) A message on the social networking software Mastodon.
  8. verb To stand out, or be prominent.
  9. verb To peep; to look narrowly.
  10. verb To see; to spy.
  11. verb To produce the noise of a horn or whistle.
  12. verb To cause a horn or whistle to produce a noise.
  13. verb (slang) To flatulate.
  14. verb (intransitive) Of a queen bee, to make a high-pitched sound during certain stages of development.
  15. verb (slang) To go on a drinking binge.
  16. noun (Australia, slang) A toilet.
  17. noun (Scotland) A small child; alternative form of tot

Synonyms

benzoylmethylecgonine blow Bolivian marching powder booger sugar boots California corn flakes charlie ching coke corinne crystals flake girl hard white marching powder nose beer nose candy nose powder party powder powder carouse carousal bender booze-up honk blare beep claxon

Etymology

Probably onomatopoeic in origin. Compare Dutch toeteren (“to blow a horn”), German tuten, Swedish tuta, Danish tude.
Noun etymology 1, noun sense 7 ("Mastodon post") and verb etymology 1, verb sense 10 ("to post on Mastodon") are influenced by tweet (“Twitter post”).

Perhaps a contraction of toilet.

An alteration of tot, borrowed from Scots.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To stand out, or be prominent. [Obs.] Howell.
  2. verb To peep; to look narrowly. [Obs.] Latimer.
  3. verb To see; to spy. [Obs.] P. Plowman.
  4. verb To blow or sound a horn; to make similar noise by contact of the tongue with the root of the upper teeth at the beginning and end of the sound; also, to give forth such a sound, as a horn when blown.

Etymology [OE. toten, AS. totian to project; hence, to peep out.]

Etymology [Cf. D. toeten to blow a horn, G. tuten, Sw.tuta, Dan. tude; probably of imitative origin.]

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