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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tucker

UK /ˈtʌkə/ · US /ˈtʌkɚ/ verb, noun, proper noun

Forms tuckers tuckering tuckered

  1. verb (slang) To tire out or exhaust a person or animal. “Man, I’m so tuckered from my run today.”
  2. noun (countable) One who or that which tucks.
  3. noun (uncountable, colloquial, Australia, New Zealand) Food; tuck.
  4. noun (slang, dated) Work that scarcely yields a living wage.
  5. noun (countable) Lace or a piece of cloth in the neckline of a dress.
  6. noun (obsolete) A fuller; one who fulls cloth.
  7. proper noun A south-western English surname originating as an occupation; equivalent to Fuller.
  8. proper noun A male given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage.
  9. proper noun An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Jefferson County, Arkansas.
  10. proper noun A city in DeKalb County, Georgia.
  11. proper noun A census-designated place in Neshoba County, Mississippi.
  12. proper noun An extinct town in Ripley County, Missouri.
  13. proper noun A ghost town in Utah County, Utah.

Synonyms

Benjamin Ricketson Tucker Sophie Tucker exhaust wash up beat tucker out

Etymology

From tuck + -er.

Inherited from Middle English tukere (“one who dresses or finishes cloth”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who, or that which, tucks; specifically, an instrument with which tuck are made.
  2. noun A narrow piece of linen or the like, folded across the breast, or attached to the gown at the neck, forming a part of a woman's dress in the 17th century and later.
  3. verb To tire; to weary; --usually with out. [Colloq. U. S.]

Etymology [See Tuck, v. t., 4.]

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