disemvowel
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Punningly from disembowel and vowel.
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to disemvowel (third-person singular simple present disemvowels, present participle disemvowelling, disemvoweling, simple past and past participle disemvowelled, disemvoweled)
- (transitive) To remove the vowels from.
- Used in this sense as early as 1995, e.g. in an online humorous story from October 28, 1995:
"What happened?" the Amigoid asked.
"D'nt knw," she said. "Jst wk p nd hrd y tw tlkng n thn, sddnly nd wtht wrnng, thr ws ths ns."
"What?" Robotech_Master asked.
"I think I know what happened," Lawrence said. "It must be part of the Silliness that's infecting the Author's Altiverse."
"S wht hppnd?"
"You've been disemvoweled," the Amigoid informed her.
- Used in this sense as early as 1995, e.g. in an online humorous story from October 28, 1995: