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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dodge

UK /dɒd͡ʒ/ · US /dɑd͡ʒ/ verb, noun, adjective, proper noun

Also a form of dad

Forms dodges dodging dodged

  1. verb (ambitransitive) To avoid (something) by moving suddenly out of the way. “He dodged traffic crossing the street.”
  2. verb (transitive, figuratively) To avoid; to sidestep. “The politician dodged the question with a meaningless reply.”
  3. verb (transitive) To elude.
  4. verb (archaic, ambitransitive) To go, or cause to go, hither and thither.
  5. verb (photography, videography) To make an area of an image lighter (when processing photographs in a darkroom, this is accomplished by decreasing the exposure of that area to light).
  6. verb (transitive) To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place.
  7. verb (ambitransitive, dated) To trick somebody.
  8. noun An act of dodging.
  9. noun A trick, evasion or wile. (Now mainly in the expression tax dodge.)
  10. noun (slang) A line of work.
  11. adjective (Australia, UK, colloquial) Dodgy.
  12. proper noun (countable, chiefly US) A surname originating as a patronymic.
  13. proper noun A village in Nebraska.
  14. proper noun A city and village in North Dakota.
  15. proper noun A census-designated place in Oklahoma.
  16. proper noun A town in Wisconsin.
  17. proper noun A brand of motor vehicle.

Synonyms

duck evade fudge skirt shun contrivance stratagem dodging scheme hedge put off circumvent parry elude sidestep

Etymology

Likely from dialectal dodge, dod, dodd (“to jog, trudge along, totter", also "to jerk, jig”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from unrecorded Middle English *dodden, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *dud- (“to move”), related to Old English dydrian, dyderian (“to delude, deceive”), Middle English dideren (“to tremble, quake, shiver”), English dodder, Norwegian dudra (“to tremble”).

From a Middle English diminutive form of Roger.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To start suddenly aside, as to avoid a blow or a missile; to shift place by a sudden start. Milton.
  2. verb To evade a duty by low craft; to practice mean shifts; to use tricky devices; to play fast and loose; to quibble.
  3. verb To evade by a sudden shift of place; to escape by starting aside; as, to dodge a blow aimed or a ball thrown.
  4. verb Fig.: To evade by craft; as, to dodge a question; to dodge responsibility. [Colloq.] S. G. Goodrich.

Etymology [Of uncertain origin: cf. dodder, v., daddle, dade, or dog, v. t.]

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