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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

pigeon

/ˈpɪ.dʒɪn/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms pigeons pigeoning pigeoned pidgeon

  1. noun (countable) One of several birds of the family Columbidae within the order Columbiformes.
  2. noun (uncountable) The meat from this bird.
  3. noun (countable, Canada, US, informal) A person who is a target or victim of a confidence game.
  4. noun (countable, politics) A pacifist, appeaser, an isolationist, a dove.
  5. noun (countable) A person hired to transport film footage out of a region where transport options are limited.
  6. noun (countable, Australia, military slang) A weak or useless person.
  7. verb (transitive) To deceive with a confidence game.
  8. noun (archaic, idiomatic, UK, informal) Concern or responsibility. “It's their pigeon.”
  9. proper noun A surname.
  10. proper noun An unincorporated community in Jackson Township, Spencer County, Indiana.
  11. proper noun Two townships in Indiana, in Vanderburgh County and Warrick County.
  12. proper noun A village in Winsor Township, Huron County, Michigan.
  13. proper noun An unincorporated community in Roane County, West Virginia, named after Pigeon Run.
  14. proper noun A town in Trempealeau County, Wisconsin.

Synonyms

culver dove dupe fish sucker chump chumpion cousin cull cully dotterel easy mark fall guy gudgeon gull juggins live one mark mug muggins

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English pygeoun, borrowed from Old French pyjon, inherited from Late Latin pīpiōnem (“chirping bird”), derived from Latin pīpiāre (“to chirp”), of imitative origin. Partly displaced native English dove.

From pidgin English, from a Chinese Pidgin English pronunciation of English business during trade in the Far East. See pidgin.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Any bird of the order Columbæ, of which numerous species occur in nearly all parts of the world.
  2. noun An unsuspected victim of sharpers; a gull. [Slang] Blue pigeon (Zoöl.), an Australian passerine bird (Graucalus melanops); --called also black-faced crow.
  3. verb To pluck; to fleece; to swindle by tricks in gambling. [Slang]

Etymology [F., fr. L. pipio a young pipping or chirping bird, fr. pipire to peep, chirp. Cf. Peep to chirp.]

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

Sanskrit

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