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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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tuck

/tʌk/ verb, noun, proper noun

Forms tucks tucking tucked

  1. verb (transitive) To pull or gather up (an item of fabric).
  2. verb (transitive) To push into a snug position; to place somewhere safe, or handy, or somewhat hidden. “Tuck in your shirt.  I tucked in the sheet.  He tucked the $10 bill into his shirt pocket.”
  3. verb (intransitive, often with "in" or "into") To eat; to consume.
  4. verb (ergative) To fit neatly. “The sofa tucks nicely into that corner.”
  5. verb To curl into a ball; to fold up and hold one's legs. “The diver tucked, flipped, and opened up at the last moment.”
  6. verb To sew folds; to make a tuck or tucks in. “to tuck a dress”
  7. verb To full, as cloth.
  8. verb (ambitransitive, LGBTQ) Of a drag queen, trans woman, etc., to conceal one's penis and testicles, as with a gaff or by fastening them down with adhesive tape. “Honey, have you tucked today? We don't wanna see anything nasty down there.”
  9. noun An act of tucking; a pleat or fold.
  10. noun (sewing) A fold in fabric that has been stitched in place from end to end, as to reduce the overall dimension of the fabric piece.
  11. noun A curled position.
  12. noun (medicine, surgery) A plastic surgery technique to remove excess skin. “tummy tuck”
  13. noun (music, piano, when playing scales on piano keys) The act of keeping the thumb in position while moving the rest of the hand over it to continue playing keys that are outside the thumb.
  14. noun (diving, gymnastics) A curled position, with the shins held towards the body.
  15. noun (nautical) The afterpart of a ship, immediately under the stern or counter, where the ends of the bottom planks are collected and terminate by the tuck-rail.
  16. noun (UK and India, dated, school slang, uncountable) Food, especially snack food.
  17. noun (archaic) A rapier, a sword.
  18. noun The beat of a drum.
  19. proper noun A surname.
  20. proper noun A diminutive of the male given name Tucker.

Synonyms

rapier insert gather pucker

Antonyms

untuck

Etymology

From Middle English tuken, touken (“to torment, to stretch (cloth)”), from Old English tūcian (“to torment, vex”) and Middle Dutch tucken (“to tuck”), both from Proto-Germanic *teuh-, *teug- (“to draw, pull”) (compare also *tukkōną), from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to pull”). Akin to Old High German zucchen (“to snatch, tug”), zuchôn (“to jerk”), German Low German tuken (“to tug, pluck, grab and pull towards”), Old English tēon (“to draw, pull, train”). Doublet of touch.

From Old French estoc (“rapier”), from Italian stocco (“a truncheon, a short sword”). Doublet of estoc.

Compare tocsin.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A long, narrow sword; a rapier. [Obs.] Shak.
  2. noun The beat of a drum. Scot.
  3. verb To draw up; to shorten; to fold under; to press into a narrower compass; as, to tuck the bedclothes in; to tuck up one's sleeves.
  4. verb To make a tuck or tucks in; as, to tuck a dress.

Etymology [F. estoc; cf. It. stocco; both of German origin, and akin to E. stock. See Stock.]

Etymology [Cf. Tocsin.]

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