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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slew

/sl(j)uː/ noun, verb

Also a form of slay slough slue

Forms slews slewing slewed

  1. noun The act, or process of slewing.
  2. noun A device used for slewing.
  3. noun A change of position.
  4. verb (transitive, nautical) To rotate or turn something about its axis.
  5. verb (transitive) To veer a vehicle.
  6. verb (transitive) To insert extra ticks or skip some ticks of a clock to slowly correct its time.
  7. verb (intransitive) To pivot.
  8. verb (intransitive) To skid.
  9. verb (transitive, rail transport) To move something (usually a railway line) sideways. “The single line was slewed onto the disused up formation to make way for the future redoubling.”
  10. verb (transitive, UK, slang) To make a public mockery of someone through insult or wit.
  11. noun A large amount. “She has a slew of papers and notebooks strewn all over her desk.”
  12. noun A crowd or large number of people.

Synonyms

bucketful superflux abundance battalion arseload assload bellyload boatload brimful busload bucketload butt-ton bumload buttload cartload crapflood crapload deal fuckload fuckton batch flock good deal great deal hatful heap lot mass mess mickle

Etymology

In all senses, a mostly British spelling of slue.

Borrowed from Irish slua (“crowd”) and Scottish Gaelic sluagh (“crowd”), from Middle Irish slúag, from Old Irish slóg, from Proto-Celtic *slougos (“troop, army”), from Proto-Indo-European *slowgʰos, *slowgos (“entourage”).

Attested since at least 1708, a North American variant of slough.

Ablaut of slay, from Middle English slew, sleugh, past of Middle English sleen.
Replaced earlier Middle English slough, slogh, from Old English slōg (past of Old English slēan (“to hit, strike, slay”)), due to the influence of knew, drew, etc. More at slay.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb See Slue.

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

Sanskrit

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