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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rogue

UK /ˈɹəʊɡ/ · US /ˈɹoʊɡ/ noun, adjective, verb, proper noun

Also a form of rouge

Forms rogues roguing rogueing rogued rouge

  1. noun A scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person.
  2. noun A mischievous scamp.
  3. noun A vagrant.
  4. noun (computing) Malware that deceitfully presents itself as antispyware.
  5. noun An aggressive animal separate from the herd, especially an elephant.
  6. noun (Australia) A horse, mule, or donkey that is difficult to control; a refractory horse, especially a racehorse.
  7. noun A plant that shows some undesirable variation.
  8. noun (roleplaying games) A character class focusing on stealthy conduct.
  9. adjective (of an animal, especially an elephant) Vicious and solitary.
  10. adjective (by extension) Large, destructive and unpredictable.
  11. adjective (by extension) Deceitful, unprincipled.
  12. adjective Mischievous, unpredictable.
  13. verb (horticulture) To cull; to destroy plants not meeting a required standard, especially when saving seed, rogue or unwanted plants are removed before pollination.
  14. verb (transitive, dated) To cheat.
  15. verb (obsolete) To give the name or designation of rogue to; to decry.
  16. verb (intransitive, obsolete) To wander; to play the vagabond; to play knavish tricks.
  17. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

antimodel bad guy baddie bastard beggar blackguard bounder cad cockatrice coistril evildoer fustilarian harlot heavy knave lidderon makeshift miscreant ne'er-do-well niding rascal rapscallion scalawag scallywag varlet

Etymology

* Earlier English roger (“a begging vagabond who pretends to be a poor scholar from Oxford or Cambridge”), possibly from Latin rogō (“to ask”).
* Middle French rogue (“arrogant, haughty”), from Old Northern French rogre (“aggressive”), from Old Norse hrokr (“excess, exuberance”), for which see Icelandic hroki (“arrogance”), though OED does not document this.
* Celtic; see Breton rog (“haughty”).

English surname, originally a nickname derived from the adjective. See rogue.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A vagrant; an idle, sturdy beggar; a vagabond; a tramp.
  2. noun A deliberately dishonest person; a knave; a cheat.
  3. verb To wander; to play the vagabond; to play knavish tricks. [Obs.]
  4. verb To give the name or designation of rogue to; to decry. [Obs.]

Etymology [F. rogue proud, haughty, supercilious; cf. Icel. hr a rook, croaker (cf. Rook a bird), or Armor. rok, rog, proud, arogant.]

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

Sanskrit

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