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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

“peacocks” is a form of

peacock

UK /ˈpiːkɒk/ · US /ˈpikɑk/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms peacocks peacocking peacocked Pocock

  1. noun A male peafowl, especially Pavo cristatus, notable for its brilliant iridescently ocellated tail.
  2. noun A peafowl (of the genus Pavo or Afropavo), either male or female.
  3. noun (uncountable) The meat of this bird.
  4. noun A pompous or vainglorious person [from the 14th c.].
  5. noun (entomology) Any of various Asian species of papilionid butterflies of the genus Papilio.
  6. verb (intransitive) To strut about proudly or haughtily.
  7. verb (intransitive) To engage in peacocking, ostentatious dress or behaviour to impress women.
  8. proper noun A surname transferred from the nickname.
  9. proper noun A township in Lake County, Michigan, United States.
  10. proper noun An unincorporated community in Stonewall County, Texas, United States.

Synonyms

turkeycock peafowl peacock butterfly Inachis io

Etymology

From Middle English pecok, pekok, pocok, pacok, first component from Old English pēa, pāwa (“peacock, peafowl”), ultimately from Latin pāvō; equivalent to pea + cock. Compare Old Norse páfugl (“peacock”, literally “peafowl”), and English peahen, peachick, etc.

From peacock, a nickname for a vain and conceited person.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The male of any pheasant of the genus Pavo, of which at least two species are known, native of Southern Asia and the East Indies.
  2. noun In common usage, the species in general or collectively; a peafowl. Peacock butterfly (Zoöl.), a handsome European butterfly (Hamadryas Io) having ocelli like those of peacock.

Etymology [OE. pecok. Pea- in this word is from AS. peá, pawa, peacock, fr. L. pavo, prob. of Oriental origin; cf. Gr. taus, tawus, Ar. tawu. See Cock the bird.]

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

Sanskrit

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