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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munch

/mʌntʃ/ verb, noun, proper noun

Forms munches munching munched

  1. verb (often with "on") To chew with a grinding, crunching sound, and with the mouth closed. “Jim was munching on a biscotti.”
  2. verb To eat vigorously or with excitement. “Watching old Bill munch his pancakes makes me hungry!”
  3. noun (countable, colloquial) A location or restaurant where good food can be expected, or an instance of eating at such a place. “Sally is having a breakfast munch at her place!”
  4. noun (countable, colloquial) An act of eating. “We had a good munch at the chippy.”
  5. noun (uncountable, slang) Food.
  6. noun (countable, BDSM) A casual meeting for those interested in BDSM, usually at a restaurant, bar or pub.
  7. noun (New York drill music, slang, derogatory) Someone who easily agrees to give oral sex.
  8. proper noun A surname.
  9. proper noun Edvard Munch, Norwegian artist.

Synonyms

Edvard Munch crunch

Etymology

From Middle English monchen, a variant of mocchen, mucchen ("to munch (food); chew audibly"; > Modern English dialectal mouch), probably imitative in origin (compare English crunch; German mampfen).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To chew with a grinding, crunching sound, as a beast chews provender; to chew deliberately or in large mouthfuls. [Formerly written also maunch and mounch.]

Etymology [Prob. akin to mumble: cf. also F. manger to eat (cf. Mange), and mâcher to cher (cf. Masticate). See Mumble.]

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