emvowel

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To replace a portion of a person's name with a dash in printing, in order to avoid libel. dated,humorous
    — And as for all the words I embowel, or rather emvowel, I will never ſo mangle them, but they ſhall be all as well known as if they retained every vowel in them.

词形变化

emvowels present,singular,third-person emvoweling US,participle,present emvowelling UK,participle,present emvoweled US,participle,past emvoweled US,past emvowelled UK,participle,past emvowelled UK,past envowel alternative

词源

Coined by Henry Fielding (1707-1754) as a jocular alteration of embowel (“disembowel”).
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