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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mug

/mʌɡ/ noun, verb, adjective

Also a form of Magh

Forms mugs mugging mugged mugger muggest

  1. noun A large cup for beverages, usually having a handle and used without a saucer.
  2. noun (slang, often derogatory) The face.
  3. noun (slang, often derogatory) The mouth. “Shut your mug!”
  4. noun (slang, derogatory) A gullible or easily cheated person. “He's a gullible mug – he believed her again.”
  5. noun (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong, derogatory, slang) A stupid or contemptible person.
  6. noun (slang) A criminal.
  7. noun (slang) A mug shot.
  8. verb (transitive, obsolete, UK, Ireland) To strike in the face.
  9. verb (transitive) To assault for the purpose of robbery.
  10. verb (intransitive) To exaggerate a facial expression for communicative emphasis; to make a face, to pose, as for photographs or in a performance, in an exaggerated or affected manner. “The children weren't interested in sitting still for a serious photo; they mugged for the camera.”
  11. verb (transitive) To photograph for identification; to take a mug shot of.
  12. verb (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong, India, slang) To learn or review a subject as much as possible in a short time; cram.
  13. adjective (Bermuda, slang) Uninteresting or unpleasant.
  14. noun (slang, African-American Vernacular) Motherfucker (usually in similes, e.g. "like a mug" or "as a mug")

Synonyms

mush dial phiz chump chumpion cousin cull cully dupe dotterel easy mark fall guy fish gudgeon gull juggins live one mark muggins pigeon mugful fool patsy sucker soft touch countenance physiognomy visage kisser smiler

Etymology

Early 16th century (originally Scots and northern English, denoting "earthenware, pot, jug"), of unknown origin, perhaps from North Germanic (compare Swedish mugg (“mug, jug”), Norwegian mugge (“pitcher, open can for warm drinks”), Danish mugge), or Low German mokke, mukke (“mug”), German Low German Muck (“drinking cup”), Dutch mok (“mug”), also of unknown origin. Perhaps related to Old English muga (“stack”) and Old Norse múgr (“mass, heap (of corn)”). Compare also Middle English mug, mog (“a measure of salt”).

Informal variant of motherfucker.

Abbreviation.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A kind of earthen or metal drinking cup, with a handle, --usually cylindrical and without a lip.
  2. noun The face or mouth. [Slang] Thackeray.

Etymology [Cf. Ir. mugam a mug, mucog a cup.]

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