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

cheek

/t͡ʃiːk/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms cheeks cheeking cheeked

  1. noun (anatomy) The soft skin on each side of the face, below the eyes; the outer surface of the sides of the oral cavity.
  2. noun (anatomy, informal, usually in the plural) The lower part of the buttocks that is often exposed beneath very brief underwear, swimwear, or extremely short shorts.
  3. noun (figurative, informal, uncountable) Impudence. “You’ve got some cheek, asking me for money!”
  4. noun (biology, informal) One of the genae, flat areas on the sides of a trilobite's cephalon.
  5. noun One of the pieces of a machine, or of timber or stonework, that form corresponding sides or a similar pair. “the cheeks of a vice”
  6. noun (nautical) pump-cheek, pump-cheeks, a piece of wood cut out fork-shaped in which the brake is fastened by means of a bolt and can thus move around and move the upper box of the pump up and down
  7. noun (in the plural) The branches of a bridle bit.
  8. noun Either side of an axehead.
  9. verb To be impudent towards. “Don't cheek me, you little rascal!”
  10. verb To pull a horse's head back toward the saddle using the cheek strap of the bridle.
  11. verb To put or keep something in one’s cheek. “The squirrel cheeked some nuts before heading back to its nest.”
  12. proper noun A pre-Norman surname.
  13. proper noun An unincorporated community in Carter County, Oklahoma, United States.
  14. proper noun An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Texas, United States, established by John R. Cheek.

Synonyms

wang arsecheek asscheek butt cheek nether cheek impertinence impudence brass neck nerve sass chutzpah buttock boldness brass face

Etymology

From Middle English cheeke, cheke, cheoke, choke, from Old English ċēce, ċēace, ċēoce (“cheek; jaw”), from Proto-West Germanic *kākā, *keukā (“jaw, cheek”), from Proto-Germanic *kēkǭ, *keukǭ (“jaw; palate; pharynx”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *ǵyewh₁- (“to chew”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Sooke (“cheek”), West Frisian tsjeak (“jaw”), Dutch kaak (“jaw; cheek”), Swedish käke (“jaw; jowl”), Norwegian kjake (“jaw”), Old Norse kók (“mouth; gullet”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The side of the face below the eye.
  2. noun The cheek bone. [Obs.] Caucer.
  3. verb To be impudent or saucy to. [Slang.]

Etymology [OE. cheke, cheoke, AS. céace, céoce; cf. Goth. kukjan to kiss, D. kaak cheek; perh. akin to E. chew, jaw.]

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

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “cheek” (best matches first).

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