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

pecker

/ˈpɛkə(ɹ)/ noun

Forms peckers

  1. noun Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill, particularly:
  2. noun (uncommon or regional) Any tool used in a pecking fashion, particularly kinds of hoes or pickaxes.
  3. noun (uncommon) Any machine or machine part moving in a pecking fashion, particularly:
  4. noun (weaving, obsolete) A picker, a shuttle-driver: the device which moves backwards and forwards in the shuttle-box to drive the shuttle through the warp.
  5. noun (telegraphy, historical) A kind of V-shaped telegraphic relay.
  6. noun (zoology) A bird, particularly a member of the group including the woodpeckers, flowerpeckers, oxpeckers, and berrypeckers.
  7. noun (UK regional, obsolete) An eater, a diner.
  8. noun (UK regional) A bird's beak.

Synonyms

bill neb nib penis nose courage pothead T-box T-block cock prick dick shaft peter tool putz woodpecker peckerwood beak

Etymology

From Middle English pekker, equivalent to peck (“to pick at something in the manner of a bird”) + -er (“forming agent nouns”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who, or that which, pecks; specif., a bird that pecks holes in trees; a woodpecker.
  2. noun An instrument for pecking; a pick. Garth. Flower pecker. (Zoöl.) See under Flower.

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

Sanskrit

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