disemvowel
verb/ˌdɪsɛmˈvaʊəl/UK/ˌdɪsəmˈvaʊ(ə)l/US
Etymology
Blend of disembowel + vowel.
Definitions
To remove the vowels from, for example, for the purpose of expurgating offensive words.
- By the way, what has become of the conspiracy of Brander Matthews et als to disemvowel the English language? Not that it matters.
- The trick will be in usurping as many vowels as you can, thus disemvoweling the others, and the one with the most words when all or as many letters as possible are used up wins.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for disemvowel. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA