vowelly

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adjective

Characteristic of, or containing, vowels.

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Meanings

adjectivevowelly (comparative more vowelly, superlative most vowelly)

comparative more vowelly · superlative most vowelly

  1. Characteristic of, or containing, vowels.

    Syl was really big into Third World lit, Stella Jr. said, mentioning a couple of postcolonial writers from the Indian subcontinent with whom I was familiar only as vowelly names on book spines.

    2008, Jonathan Miles, Dear American Airlines, page 62

Origin

From vowel + -y.

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Cite this entry
APA

vowelly. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/vowelly

MLA

“vowelly.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/vowelly. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “vowelly,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/vowelly.

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