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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bitch

/bɪt͡ʃ/ noun, verb

Forms bitches bitching bitched betch biatch biotch beatch beotch bih binch bish biyatch biyotch beeyatch beeyotch bizatch

  1. noun (dated or specialised, dog-breeding) A female dog or other canine, particularly a recent mother. “My bitch just had puppies; they're so cute!”
  2. noun (archaic, offensive) A promiscuous woman, slut, whore.
  3. noun (vulgar, offensive) A despicable or disagreeable, aggressive person, usually a woman. “Ann spread rumors about me; she's such a bitch.”
  4. noun (vulgar, slang, chiefly African-American Vernacular) A woman in general.
  5. noun (vulgar, offensive) A man considered soft, effeminate, weak, timid or pathetic in some way
  6. noun (LGBTQ slang, derogatory) An obviously gay man.
  7. noun (vulgar, offensive) A submissive person who does what others want; (prison slang) a man forced or coerced into a homosexual relationship. “Dude, don't be a bitch. Assert yourself.”
  8. noun (vulgar, colloquial) A complaint, especially when the complaint is unjustified.
  9. verb (vulgar, intransitive) To behave or act as a bitch; especially, to complain excessively.
  10. verb (vulgar, intransitive) To complain or criticize spitefully, often for the sake of complaining rather than in order to have the problem corrected. “All you ever do is bitch about the food I cook for you!”
  11. verb (vulgar, transitive) To spoil, to ruin.

Synonyms

doggess female she-dog shrew cunt assbag assbreath assbucket asschunk asscunt assface assfag assfaggot assfuck assfucker asshat asshead asshole assmonkey assmouth gripe kick beef squawk grouse crab bellyache holler backbite

Etymology

From Middle English biche, bicche, from Old English biċċe, from Proto-West Germanic *bikkjā, from Proto-Germanic *bikjǭ (“female dog”) (compare Norwegian bikkje (“dog, bitch”), Old Danish bikke (“bitch”)), from Proto-Germanic *bikjaną (“to thrust, attack”) (compare Old Norse bikkja (“to plunge into water”), Dutch bikken (“to hack”)). Related to bicker.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The female of the canine kind, as of the dog, wolf, and fox.
  2. noun An opprobrious name for a woman, especially a lewd woman. Pope.

Etymology [OE. biche, bicche, AS. bicce; cf. Icel. bikkja, G. betze, peize.]

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

Sanskrit

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