disemvowel

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Verb

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[edit] Etymology

Punningly from disembowel and vowel.

[edit] Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aʊəl, -aʊl

[edit] Verb

to disemvowel (third-person singular simple present disemvowels, present participle disemvowelling, disemvoweling, simple past and past participle disemvowelled, disemvoweled)

1. (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.