disenvowel
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Compare envowel.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌdɪsɛnˈvaʊəl/, /-ɪm-/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˌdɪsənˈvaʊ(ə)l/
- Rhymes: -aʊəl, -aʊl
- Hyphenation: dis‧en‧vow‧el
Verb[edit]
disenvowel (third-person singular simple present disenvowels, present participle disenvowelling or disenvoweling, simple past and past participle disenvowelled or disenvoweled)
- Alternative form of disemvowel.
- 2005, Ruth Wajnryb, “Bootleggers and Asterisks”, in Expletive Deleted: A Good Look at Bad Language, New York, N.Y.: Free Press, →ISBN, page 187:
- Another swearing-curtailing device is to allow the taboo word but disenvowel it, so that fuck and cunt become "f-ck" and "c-nt."