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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daub

UK /dɔːb/ · US /dɔb/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms daubs daubing daubed

  1. noun Excrement or clay used as a bonding material in construction.
  2. noun A soft coating of mud, plaster, etc.
  3. noun A crude or amateurish painting.
  4. verb (intransitive, transitive) To apply (something) to a surface in hasty or crude strokes. “The artist just seemed to daub on paint at random and suddenly there was a painting.”
  5. verb (transitive) To paint (a picture, etc.) in a coarse or unskilful manner.
  6. verb (transitive, obsolete) To cover with a specious or deceitful exterior; to disguise; to conceal.
  7. verb (transitive, obsolete) To flatter excessively or grossly.
  8. verb (transitive, obsolete) To put on without taste; to deck gaudily.
  9. verb (transitive, bingo) To mark spots on a bingo card, using a dauber.
  10. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

apply coat cover plaster smear smudge spot blot smirch slur

Etymology

From Middle English daub (noun), from Middle English dauben (“to plaster or whitewash; cover with clay; bespatter”, verb), from Old Northern French dauber (“to whitewash; plaster”), of uncertain origin. Probably from Latin dealbāre (“to whiten thoroughly”), which would make it a doublet of dealbate.

* As a German and Jewish surname, variant of Taube, occupational surname from the noun meaning "pigeon, dove."
* As a south German surname, from the adjective taub (“deaf”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To smear with soft, adhesive matter, as pitch, slime, mud, etc.; to plaster; to bedaub; to besmear.
  2. verb To paint in a coarse or unskillful manner.
  3. verb To smear; to play the flatterer.
  4. noun A viscous, sticky application; a spot smeared or dabed; a smear.

Etymology [OE. dauben to smear, OF. dauber to plaster, fr. L. dealbare to whitewash, plaster; de- + albare to whiten, fr. albus white, perh. also confused with W. dwb plaster, dwbio to plaster, Ir. & OGael. dob plaster. See Alb, and cf. Dealbate.]

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

Sanskrit

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