Dictionary of English Phonesthemes Part 6

Final Cluster Phonesthemes Part 2

/E:ks/ (1/1) Unclassified: annex, ex, flex, googolplex, inflex, kex, Kleenex, latex, lex, multiplex, narthex, perplex, prex, Pyrex, reflex, rex, Rolodex, sex, Tex- Mex, triplex, vex, videotex, vortex,
/e:pR/ (1/1) Unclassified: sapor (a proberty that affects the sense of taste; savor; flavor),
/e:b/ (1/1) Unclassified: babe, astrolabe, cosmobabe,
/W:ns/ (1/1) Sound Imitative: bounce, jounce
/W:C/ (1/1) Staying low: couch, crouch, slouch,
/W:l/ (1/1) Animal sound: growl, howl, yowl,
/i:p/ (1/1) High-pitched sound: peep (cry of young birds), cheep, bleep,
/i:b/ (1/1) Unclassified: glebe (a plot of cultivated land; land belonging or yielding revenue to a parish church or ecclesiastical benefice), grebe (any of a family of swimming and diving birds closely relating to the loon but having lobate toes)
/i:r/ (1/1) Contempt: fleer (jibe, sneer, jeer), sneer, jeer, queer,
/i:v/ (1/1) Unclassified: believe, disbelieve, make believe, conceive, misconceive, perceive, deceive, undeceive, naive, grieve, aggrieve, beeve, bereave, breve, cleave, deev, eave, endive, eve, yester-eve, greave, engrieve, heave, interleave, keeve, khedive, leave, lieve, qui vive, reave, receive, recitative, reeve, relieve, reprieve, retrieve, seave, sheave, shire-reeve, shrieve, sleave, steeve, Steve, thieve, achieve, overachieve, underachieve, unreave, upheave, vive, weave, interweave, inweave, unweave, we've,
/i:vR/ (1/1) Unclassified: believer, disbeliever, unbeliever, make-believer, conciever, preconceiver, misconciever, deceiver, undeceiver, naiver, achiever, underachiever, griever, aggriever, bereaver, brever, beaver, cleaver, Guadalquivir, interleaver, interweaver, keever, leaver, lever, cantilever, livre, overachiever, reaver, receiver, reever, reiver, reliever, repriever, sheaver, upheaver, weaver, weever, heaver, ballast heaver, coal heaver, fever, enfever, hay fever, spring fever, jungle fever, scarlet fever, yellow fever,
/i:z/ (1/1) Unclassified: sneeze, wheeze, fnese (breath heavily, snore), squeeze, tease, sottise (foolish behavior, stupidity), sleaze, ease, appease, seize, reprise, please, mease (a measure of 500 herrings; to ease; calm), cheese, breeze, aes (bronze or copper; bronze or copper money in roman antiquity) frieze (the part of an entablature between the achitrave and the cornice; a sculptured or richly ornamented band),
/i:zR/ Unclassified: geezer, wheezer, sneezer, appeaser, Ceaser, easer, Ebeneezer, freezer, friezer, pleaser, squeezer, teaser, tweezer, greaser, leaser,
/I:p/ (1/1) Quick Movement: clip (cut), whip (move the wings briskly), hip (hop), skip, gnip, knip, nip {variant of knip, gnip}, tip, snip, flip, zip
/I:t/ (1/1) Unclassified: spit, flit, hit, skit (quick movement), shit, twit, grit, kit,
/I:C/ (1/1) Jerky Movement: twitch, hitch, pitch,
/I:k/ (1/1) Quick sound: pick, prick, kick, tick, flick, nick, click, snick (click), crick (sound of grasshopper; spasm of the muscles),
/I:dL/ (1/1) Trifle: fiddle, piddle, tiddle, twiddle (have sexual relations), quiddle, diddle (sing without distinct utterance of words), diddle away (trifle away, waste), middle, riddle, fiddle, quiddle (to procrastinate or dawdle in carrying out one's dury), criddle, siddle, friddle, biddle, tiddle, striddle, squiddle, niddle, flumadiddle (a New England holidy mess consisting of stale bread, pork fat, molasses, cinnamon, allspice, and cloves; nonsense), flummydiddle, flumdiddle (frills), befiddle, condiddle, piddle (to pick at one's food; eat like a bird), taradiddle (fib; pretentious nonsense), paradiddle (a quick succession of drumbeats slower than a roll and alternating left- and right- hand strokes in a typical L-R-L-L, R-L-R-R pattern),
/I:gL/ (1/1) Small, Continuous Movement Sounds: wiggle (wobble, waggle, wriggle), wriggle, squiggle, scriggle (squiggle), sniggle (snicker),
/I:f/ (1/1) Noise of Breath or Liquor: sniff, whiff (puff, whistle), tiff (outburst of temper), miff (tiff, petty quarrel), biff (blow), tiff (drink, sip) {influenced by tipple}, squiffy (drunk),
/I:fL/ (1/1) Irregular sound: whiffle, sniffle, piffle (to talk or act in a trivial, inept, or ineffective way; trivial nonsense; ineptitude), riffle (a shallow extending across a stream bed and causing broken water; a stretch of water flowing over a riffle; a small wave or succession of small waves; ripple; the act or process of shuffling, as of cards; the made while doing this; to form, flow over or move in riffles; to flip curiously, to thumb; to ruffle slightly; to leaf through hastily; to leaf, as a stack of paper, by sliding the thumb along the edge of the leaves; to shuffle playing cards by separating the deck into two parts and riffling with the thumbs so that the cards intermix; to manipulate small objects idly with the fingers; any of various contrivances, as blocks or rails, laid on the bottom of a sluice or launder to make a series of grooves or interstices to catch and retain a mineral, as gold; a groove or interstice so formed; a cleat or bar fastened to an inclined surface in a gold-washing apparatus to catcha and hold mineral grains; to run through a riffle or over a series of riffles
/I:s/ (1/1) Unclassified: siss, hiss,
/I:sk/ (1/1) Unclassified: whisk (to bear along or sweep with light movements as a broom; to move quickly and lightly), frisk, flisk (caper, frolic), brisk, fisk, prisk, sisk, zisk, bisk, pisk, flisk, drisk, glisk (a slight touch of pleasure or a twinge of pain that penetrates the soul and passes quickly away), disc, risk,
/I:vR/ (1/1) Tremble, Shake: quiver, chiver, shiver {from chiver}, flivver (originally fail, bungle; small, cheap, shaking, usually old automobile),
/I:z/ (1/1) Noise: whizz, fizz, sizz, frizz, blizzard, jizz (what identifies a bird; semen, to eject semen),
/I:zi/ (1/1) Unclassified: busy, dizzy, frizzy, jizzy, tizzy, tin-lizzie,
/I:zM/ (1/1) Unclassified: abysm, schism, jism,
/I:zL/ (1/1) Continuous, Quietly Sputtering Noises, as of Rain or Fat in a Pan: mizzle, drizzle, sizzle, frizzle (sizzle), fizzle, pizzle (animal penis),
/I:G/ (1/2) Sound With Extended Decay: ring, sing, ding (knock, hammer), ping, whing (high-pitched ringing sound),
/I:G/ (2/2) Movement: swing, sling, fling, whing (move with force or impetus), wing, wring,
/I:Gk/ (1/2) High pitched sound: tink, clink, chink, plink, flink (comic sound effect),
/I:Gk/ (2/2) Unclassified: skink (lizard; drink; liquor; beef hocks or beef hock soup; to pour liquor; to pour), smink, spink, stink, swink, vink, wink, hoodwink, awink, tiddlywink, link, rink, mink, pink, fink, ratfink, jink (move quickly or unexpectedly with sudden turns and shifts), hink, frink, drink, kink, ink, sprink, sink, gink, schlink, dink (penis, esp small one), Chink (epithet for Chinese), chink (narrow opening, division, cleft, slit, or fissure; a narrow beam of light shining through a chink; a weak spot that may leave one vulnerable; sound of money), slink (move stealthily or furtively), twink, trink, glink (the sound of liquid escaping from a narrow-mouthed vessel; to glance at slyly or sideways), shrink, ink, zinc, jinniwink (a small derrick), chiwink (the redeyed towhee),
/I:GkL/ (1/1) Unclassified: crinkle, inkle, periwinkle, sprinkle, twinkle, winkle, wrinkle,
/o:n/ (1/1) Unclassified: groan, moan,
/o:r/ (1/1) Low-Pitched Tone: roar, snore, snort, blore (a violent blowing), snore (a snort),
/o:l/ (1/1) Sound: knoll (sound of a bell), toll, jowl, joll (toll a bell; bump the head), loll, troll, stroll, roll (of thunder),
/Y:Gk/ (1/1) Resonating Sound Cut Short: boink, doink, foink, goink, koink, poink, sproink, toink,
/Y:G/ (1/1) Resonance, Vibration, Oscillation, Undulation, Pulsation, Elasticity, Recoil, Spring, Bounce: boing, bloing, choing, doing, foing, poing, shtoing, skoing, sproing, toing, zoing,
/u:p/ (1/1) Unclassifed: crup, cup, gup, larrup, scup, sup, tup, whup,
/u:pL/ (1/1) Unclassified: couple, supple,
/u:t/ (1/1) Unclassified: abut, but, butt, catgut, coconut, crut, cut, uncut, glut, gut, halibut, hut, jut, Lilliput, mutt, nut, occiput, putt, rebut, rut, scut, scuttlebutt, shut, slut, smut, besmut, strut, astrut, surrebut, tut,
/u:tL/ (1/1) Unclassified: abuttal, cuttle, guttle, rebuttal, ruttle, scuttle, shuttle, subtle, suttle,
/u:C/ (1/1) Unclassified: mutch, clutch, crutch, Dutch, touch, hutch (a chest or compartment for storage; a low cupbourd usu surmounted by open shelves; a pen or coop for an animal; shack; shanty), scutch (to separate the woody fiber from flax or hemp by beating; an implement for so doing; a bricklayer's hammer for cutting, trimming, and dressing bricks), such, much, forasmuch, inasmuch, insomuch, overmuch,
/u:k/ (1/1) Unclassified: guck (oozy, sloppy dirt or debris),
/u:kL/ (1/1) Unclassified: bruckle, buckle, unbuckle, chuckle, honeysuckle, huckle, knuckle, muckle, parbuckle, suckle, truckle,
/B:/ (1/1) Unclassified: Beelzebub, blub, bub, chub, club, cub, drub, dub, fub, grub, hub, hubbub, nub, pub, rub, rub-a-dub, scrub, shrub, sillabub, slub, snub, stub, sub, tub,
/B:L/ (1/1) Unclassified: bubble, double, grubble, hubble-bubble, nouble, redouble, rubble, stubble, trouble,
/D:/ (1/1) Unclassified: blood, bud, cud, dud, flood, fud, lud, mud, scud, spud, stud, bestud, thud,
/D:L/ (1/1) Unclassified: buddle, cuddle, fuddle, huddle, muddle, bemuddle, nuddle, puddle, ruddle, scuddle,
/u:g/ (1/2) Pulling Movement: tug {variant of tuck (tug, pull)}, shrug (shudder, shiver), rug (pull forcefully), hug, lug, chug (the sound of an oil engine, etc running slowly) {variant of chuck},
/u:g/ (2/2) Unclassified: bug, drug, dug, fug, hug, jug, mug, plug, pug, rug, shrug, slug, smug, snug, thug, trug,
/u:gL/ (1/1) Unclassified: guggle, juggle, smuggle, snuggle, struggle,
/D:J/ (0/1) Similar to /a:J/
/D:J/ (1/1) Heaviness, Unpleasantness: grudge (murmur, grumble, be reluctant, envy) {variant of grutch}, drudge {blend of dree (labor) and grudge}, trudge, smudge (soil, smirch) {from smot}, snudge (miser, niggard) {from snap, snatch (money)}, sludge {from slub or slush}, pudge (short and thick person or thing) {from podge},
/D:L/ (1/1) Unclassified: cuddle, huddle, nuddle, fuddle, muddle (wallow in mud; stupefy with liquor),
/u:f/ (0/1) Onomatopoeic variant of /I:f/
/u:f/ (1/2) Outburst Of Breath, Air, Or Smoke: puff, buff (burst into a laugh), huff (puff, swell), snuff, whuff (puff), fluff, fuff (fluff), pluff (fluff), chuff (the noise of an engin or machine), cuff (strike), buff (nudity; moderate orange or light yellow; enthusiast), bluff (to make a blindfolded buff of a person; to blindfold), dandruff,
/u:f/ (2/2) Unclassified: rough, tough, gruff, muff,
/u:fL/ (1/1) Untidiness, Disordiliness: ruffle (crumple), shuffle (put together in a hasty, disorderly manner), scuffle (put together in a hasty, disorderly manner; scrambling fight),
/u:sL/ (1/1) Sound With Continuation: rustle (move rapidly), bustle {variant of buskle}, hustle,
/u:S/ (0/1) Variant of /A:S/
/u:S/ (1/1) Unclassified: flush, lush (dash, strike), dush (dash), rush, gush, frush (strike violently), crush, blush, push*,
/u:z/ (1/1) Sound: buzz, huzz (buzz), fuzz (buzz; make drunk), fuzz-ball, muzz (fuddle),
/u:zi/ (1/1) Unclassified: fuzzy, hussy, muzzy (muddle, stupid with excess of liquor, blurred),
/u:zL/ Unclassified: guzzle, puzzle, nuzzle, wuzzle (mix), fuzzle (intoxicate), muzzle (fuddle; drink to excess) {blend of muddle and muzzy}, bemuzzle, unmuzzle,
/M:/ (1/1) Vibrating Sounds: hum, bum (hum loudly), bum (beat, thump), drum, thrum, strum, tum,
/M:bL/ (1/1) Humming or Rumbling: mumble, rumble, humble (hum), jumble (grumble), drumble (mumble), grumble, tumble, stumble, fumble, crumble, stumble, scumble, umbel,
/M:p/ (1/4) Heavy Fall and Impact; Low-Pitched Sound: dump (fall heavily), plump, jump, thump, bump, crump (noise of horses or pigs when eating), clump (tread heavily), slump, flump, wump (throb, sound of fall),
/M:p/ (2/4) Displeasure: lump (be displeased), mump, hump (ill-humor), frump (cross, old-fashioned woman; put in a bad humor; sulk), lump (look sulky), grump (sulk), glump (sulk),
/M:p/ (3/4) Clumsiness, Unattractiveness: chump, dump, frump, grump,
/M:p/ (4/4) Rounded Collection: bump, clump, hump, slump, stump, rump,
/M:pkIn/ (1/1) Unclassified: bumpkin, pumpkin,
/M:ps/ (1/1) Unclassified: mumps, frumps (sulks), humps and grumps (slights and snubs),
/M:pi/ (1/1) Unclassified: bumpy, chumpy, clumpy, crumpy, dumpy, frumpy, grumpy, glumpy, humpy, jumpy, lumpy, mumpy, plumpy, slumpy, stumpy, thumpy,
/M:pL/ (1/1) Unclassified: crumble, rumple, unrumple,
/N:C/ (1/1) Low-Pitched Sound: munch, crunch, scrunch, bunch, hunch, lunch, clunch,
/u:GgL/ (1/1) Unclassified: bungle, jungle, fungal, mungle,
/u:Gk/ (1/1) Low-Pitched Sound: clunk, plunk, thunk, funk (spark), spunk (tinder, touchwood), punk {variant of spunk}, funk (flinch),
/R:/ (1/1) Movement or Whirring Sound: skirr (move hastily, make a whirring sound), chirr (make a sound like a grasshopper), squirr (cast with a whirling motion),
/R:i/ (1/1) Agitated Activity: hurry, {from hurr}, hurry-scurry, scurry, flurry, worry,
/R:l/ (1/2) Prolonged Vibrating, Dull Sounds: hurl, purl (gentle murmuring or bubbling sound like the water of a shallow stream flowing over stones),
/R:l/ (2/2) Unclassified: whirl, swirl (whirlpool), chirl (warble), twirl, girl,
/R:t/ (1/1) Unclassified: spurt, blurt, squirt, flirt (fling), spirt,
/U:b/ (1/1) Triviality: boob, cube, tube, Rube,
/U:d/ (1/1) Unclassified: abrood, astrude, allude, brood, collude, conclude, consuetude, crude, delude, denude, desuetude, detrude, dude, elude, exclude, extrude, exude, feud, food, hebetude, illude, include, interclude, interlude, lewd, lude, mood, nude, obtrude, occlude, pood, preclude, prelude, prude, Quaalude, reclude, retrude, rood, rude, seclude, shrewd, slewed, snood, stude, thewed, glued,
/U:dL/ (1/1) Unclassified: boodle, caboodle, conoodle, flapdoodle, kiyoodle, noodle, poodle, doodle,
/U:J/ (1/1) Unclassified: splooge (to eject semen), demonifuge, febrifuge, gamboge, huge, insectifuge, Scrooge, scrouge, stooge, subterfuge, vermifuge,
/U:gL/ (1/1) Unclassified: bugle, febrifugle, frugal, fugal, infrugal, jugal, vermifrugal,
/U:f/ (1/1) Unclassified: aloof, behoof, goof, hoof, loof, proof, roof, spoof, woof,
/U:C/ (1/1) Unclassified: cooch, brooch (an ornament that is held by a pin or a clasp and is worn at or near the neck), hooch {Japanese uchi=house} (thatched hut; dwelling), hootch {variant of hooch} (thatched hut; dwelling), hooch {clipping of Hoochinoo, a liquor made by the Hoochinoo Indians, a Tlingit people} (alcoholic liquor, esp inferior and illicit), hoochy-cooch, mooch (to wander aimlessly; amble; sneak; sponge; cadge; beg; to take surreptitiously; steal) pooch (dog),
/U:m/ (1/1) Unclassified: boom (buzz, make a deep resonant sound), zoom (make a low-pitched buzzing sound; the sudden, steep climbing of a plane), boom (rapid business growth) {noise of production machinery},
/U:s/ (1/1) Unclassified: juice, sluice, moose, spruce (very neat, clean, tidy; of dress and appearance, trim; a genus of quick-growing conifers, with the branches close together and forming a conical head; their light but strong wood), loose, goose, noose, duce (dictator), deuce (two), obduce (to cover with), abstruce, induce (conclude by induction), puce (brownish purple; goblin), obtuse, excuse, seduce, reproduce, reuse, truce, Zeus,
/U:p/ (1/1) Unclassified: whoop, roop (horse sound), scroop (creak, grate), cloop (noise of a cork), poop, scoop, troop, hoop,