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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

vowelly en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From vowel + -y.

Meanings

  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:

Forms

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most vowelly Degree=Sup lexicographic
more vowelly Degree=Cmp lexicographic