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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buffet

UK /ˈbʊf.eɪ/ · US /bəˈfeɪ/ noun, verb

Forms buffets buffeting buffetting buffeted buffetted beaufet

  1. noun A counter or sideboard from which food and drinks are served or may be bought.
  2. noun Food laid out in this way, to which diners serve themselves. “We'll be serving supper buffet style.”
  3. noun A small low stool; a hassock.
  4. noun (countable) A blow or cuff with or as if with the hand, or by any other solid object or the wind.
  5. noun (aviation, uncountable) The vibration of an aircraft when flying in or approaching a stall, caused by separation of airflow from the aircraft's wings.
  6. verb (transitive) To strike with a buffet; to cuff; to slap.
  7. verb (transitive, figurative) To aggressively challenge, denounce, or criticise.
  8. verb To affect as with blows; to strike repeatedly; to strive with or contend against. “to buffet the billows”
  9. verb To deaden the sound of (bells) by muffling the clapper.
  10. verb (intransitive) To struggle, contend; also in figurative or extended use: to move as if driven by force.

Synonyms

sideboard smorgasbord cupboard buffet meal blow collision cuff batter counter snack bar snack counter knock about buff

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English buffet (“stool”), from Middle French buffet (“side table”), from Old French buffet, of unknown origin. The modern pronunciation is remodelled after modern French buffet.

From Middle English buffet (“buffet”), from Old French buffet, diminutive of buffe, cognate with Italian buffetto. See buffer, buffoon, and compare German puffen (“to jostle, to hustle”).

From Middle English buffeten, from Old French buffeter, from the noun (see above).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A cupboard or set of shelves, either movable or fixed at one side of a room, for the display of plate, china, etc., a sideboard.
  2. noun A counter for refreshments; a restaurant at a railroad station, or place of public gathering.
  3. noun A blow with the hand; a slap on the face; a cuff.
  4. noun A blow from any source, or that which affects like a blow, as the violence of winds or waves; a stroke; an adverse action; an affliction; a trial; adversity.

Etymology [F. buffet, LL. bufetum; of uncertain origin; perh. fr. the same source as E. buffet a blow, the root meaning to puff, hence (cf. puffed up) the idea of ostentation or display.]

Etymology [OE. buffet, boffet, OF. buffet a slap in the face, a pair of bellows, fr. buffe blow, cf. F. bouffer to blow, puff; prob. akin to E. puff. For the meaning slap, blow, cf. F. soufflet a slap, souffler to blow. See Puff, v. i., and cf. Buffet sidebroad, Buffoon]

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