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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tom

UK /tɒm/ · US /tɑm/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms toms tomming tommed

  1. noun The male of the domesticated cat, especially if not neutered.
  2. noun The male of the turkey.
  3. noun The male of the orangutan.
  4. noun The male of certain other animals.
  5. noun (UK, slang, dated) A female prostitute.
  6. noun (US, slang) A lesbian.
  7. noun (obsolete) The jack of trumps in the card game gleek.
  8. noun (UK, regional, obsolete) A close-stool.
  9. noun (UK, greengrocers' slang) A tomato (the fruit).
  10. noun (Cockney rhyming slang) jewellery
  11. verb (intransitive, derogatory, of a black person) To act in an obsequiously servile manner toward white authority.
  12. verb (nautical) To dig out a hole below the hatch cover of a bulker and fill it with cargo or weights to aid stability.
  13. proper noun A diminutive of the male given name Thomas, also used as a formal male given name.
  14. proper noun A nickname for a common man.
  15. noun (US, numismatic slang, rare) A United States two-dollar bill.
  16. noun (euphemistic, personification) Synonym of menstruation. “Sorry, maybe next week. Uncle Tom is visiting.”
  17. proper noun A large, deep-toned bell, or a particularly notable example of one.

Synonyms

male buck stag tomcat he-cat turkeycock Jefferson Thomas Jefferson menstruation Uncle Tom turkey cock gobbler tom turkey

Etymology

From generic use of the proper name Tom.

Shortened from tomato

Rhyming slang from tomfoolery.

From Uncle Tom.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The knave of trumps at gleek. [Obs.]

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