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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flurry

/ˈflʌ.ɹi/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms flurries flurrying flurried Flurrys

  1. noun A light, brief snowfall; a shower of snow.
  2. noun A sudden and brief blast or gust; a light, temporary breeze. “a flurry of wind”
  3. noun A shower of dust, leaves etc. brought on by a sudden gust of wind.
  4. noun (figurative) Any sudden activity; a stir. “The day before the wedding was a flurry of preparations.”
  5. noun A snack consisting of soft ice cream mixed with small pieces of fruit, cookie crumbs, etc.
  6. noun The violent spasms of a dying whale.
  7. noun An occurrence of something (countable instances) in large numbers, happening suddenly or in a short period of time. “The fencer landed a flurry of hits on her opponent.”
  8. verb (transitive) To agitate, bewilder, fluster.
  9. verb (intransitive) To move or fall in a flurry.
  10. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

sprint volley barrage bustle hustle ado fuss stir snow flurry confuse disconcert put off

Etymology

Perhaps an American English blend of flutter and hurry. Alternatively, perhaps from an obsolete term flurr (“scatter”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A sudden and brief blast or gust; a light, temporary breeze; as, a flurry of wind.
  2. noun A light shower or snowfall accompanied with wind.
  3. verb To put in a state of agitation; to excite or alarm. H. Swinburne.

Etymology [Prov. E. flur to ruffle.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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