Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. transitive, humorous To remove the vowels from.
Etymologies
- Punningly from disembowel and vowel. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Lefty blogs love to 'disemvowel' commenters for varying too far from the party line, be it Iraq, climate change, or the One.”
Nicole Belle embarrasses herself with a childishly written, dishonest smear.
“Instead of deleting a post, I may disemvowel the URL to commercial sites even if a post is arguably on-topic when I believe the poster is engaged in a pattern of linking to different commercial sites under false names.”
“A better question is whether I should go back and disemvowel the post you were kind enough to reprint (and your reprinting of it), but that horse seems to have bolted the barn some time ago, so I'm not sure I see the point.”
Discourse.net: Patricia D. White to Be Dean of University of Miami School of Law
“Tell you the truth, and I must be careful because Professor Froomkin will certainly disemvowel me if I go to far, but let me tell you, young'un:”
“Wow looks like the host is getting good use of his disemvowel program.”
Discourse.net: Patricia D. White to Be Dean of University of Miami School of Law
“I will delete (or disemvowel) comments that are duplicative, commercial, needlessly foul or mean or otherwise inappropriately offensive.”
“Instead of deleting a post, I may disemvowel the URL to commercial sites even if a post is arguably on-topic when I believe the poster is engaged in a pattern of linking to different commercial sites under false names, or even to a single site under multiple names or linked terms.”
“Funny how you did not disemvowel the aforementioned post.”
Discourse.net: Patricia D. White to Be Dean of University of Miami School of Law
“[Moderator's note: I have disemvoweled a part of this post, consistent with version 1.3 of the comments policy, which states "I may disemvowel the URL to commercial sites even if a post is arguably on-topic when I believe the poster is engaged in a pattern of linking to different commercial sites under false names, or even to a single site under multiple names or linked terms."]”
“If the intention is to make the thing harder to read, why not disemvowel it and really give 'em a good workout?”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘disemvowel’.
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longer new words in Scrabble
these were collected recently
mostly from Chambers and some
from Collins dictionaries.acathisia, acathisias, acentrics, aciclovir, aciclovirs, acidically, acinetobacter, acinetobacters, acrophobics, aculeates, advertizings, aerodigestive and 1320 more...
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WF - Word Formation Words
Classes of words and types of word formation
sniglet, protologism, portmanteau word, blend, telescope-word, frankenword, double-entendre, compound, derivative, palindrome, spoonerism, malapropism and 152 more...
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Neologisms
'New' words.
neurogami, sexting, plussies, plussy, churnalism, hecka, greenwashing, greenwash, Blogistan, diactrize, subsume, cachebusting and 27 more...
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Neologistics
Basically this is a "words about words" list with a focus on neologism generation in all its various forms.
wordplay, paronomasia, madeupical, logodaedaly, onomatopoeic, verbification, nominalization, recontextualization, spoonerism, typo recycling, sloganeer, wordsmith and 59 more...
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Mollusque's miscellany
A mixture of words that I like or have commented on, along with ones parked here so they'd be listed somewhere or remind me of lists I want to make.
oranger, monographer, preoccupied, bu, bobization, coinventor, tetrapyloctomy, borgmannian, suspercollate, manhug, mancrush, obituarist and 604 more...
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Time for a new list!
abrupt, erupt, rupture, sync, appropinquity, heterochromia, homochromatic, monochromatic, willy nilly, nitty gritty, kowtow, wonton and 455 more...
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Myriadmiration
Neologisms ala Wordnik.com. Directly below are links to some other New Word lists... pease suggest yours to add!
Ne(word)er by whichbe
fake words by sionnach
frivolous uni...obstacular, frenemy, delayering, playgue, abjective, contradictionary, sarchasm, goggly, ecolect, disimagine, alligavate, sniboluous and 330 more...
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Made up words
Particularly those with their origin among the children of certain families.
mummets, glepters, anaphoraditus, deifenestration, coanniversary, santorum, refreshman, cisvestite, omnegligent, flagillitious, flagellicious, roleo and 27 more...
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A few of my favorite things
Much overdue...I hope to be as selective as possible with this. In short, the prettiest, strangest, funniest words.
bunbury, milquetoast, greenhorn, imbroglio, mercurial, chimera, gadzooks, circuitous, chthonic, viscera, vertiginous, nepenthe and 34 more...
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urfy's Words
orotund, viridian, sferics, zombiologist, scrilla, disemvowel, tesseract, furison, alizarin, seneschal, vergee, mashie-niblick and 5 more...
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From the media
Stuff I heard, read, or saw.
disemvowel, eye-o-sauron, iquitarod, furderer, meh, hack-a-shaq
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Invented Words
These are some interesting and useful words I've run across, either in online contexts or in books.
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words
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Cute words
Cute words which will not appear in traditional dictionaries any time soon.
Tweets
Looking for tweets for disemvowel.
TNH Disemvowel (disemvowelled, disemvowelling): to moderate an objectionable comment or passage by removing its vowels. The word was invented on 21 November 2002 by Arthur Hlavaty. Jun 10, 2009
vanishedone Apparently there may be an equivalent word in Arabic. Nov 16, 2007
tankexmortis Vry clvr.
Srry. Bd jk, knw. Cldn't hlp mslf. Dec 3, 2006