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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dupe

/duːp/ noun, verb

Forms dupes duping duped

  1. noun A person who has been deceived.
  2. verb To swindle, deceive, or trick.
  3. noun (photography) A duplicate of a photographic image.
  4. noun (food service, hospitality) A duplicate of an order receipt printed for kitchen staff.
  5. noun (crosswording) A word which appears more than once in a crossword puzzle.
  6. noun (informal) A counterfeit; a fake, a (typically cheaper) copy (of some legitimate consumer product, design, etc).
  7. noun (video games) An unanticipated method or incident by which duplicates of in-game items are created; a duplication glitch.
  8. noun (video games, Minecraft) An in-game item that was created by means of a duplication glitch.
  9. verb (transitive) To duplicate. “Can you dupe this photo for me?”

Synonyms

chump chumpion cousin cull cully dotterel easy mark fall guy fish gudgeon gull juggins live one mark mug muggins pigeon rube sap saphead victim slang befool cod fool put on take in put one over put one across

Antonyms

dedupe halve

Etymology

From French duper, from Middle French duppe, alteration of huppe (“hoopoe”), from Latin, onomatopoeic.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who has been deceived or who is easily deceived; a gull; as, the dupe of a schemer.
  2. verb To deceive; to trick; to mislead by imposing on one's credulity; to gull; as, dupe one by flattery.

Etymology [F., prob. from Prov. F. dupe, dube; of unknown origin; equiv. to F. huppe hoopoe, a foolish bird, easily caught. Cf. Armor. houpérik hoopoe, a man easily deceived. Cf. also Gull, Booby.]

Etymology [Cf. F. duper, fr. dupe. See Dupe, n.]

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