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vowelly

vowelly adjective: characteristic of, or containing, vowels.

Adjective

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

Forms of vowelly

comparativemore vowelly
superlativemost vowelly

Origin of vowelly

From vowel + -y.

Questions about vowelly

What does vowelly mean?
Vowelly means characteristic of, or containing, vowels.
What part of speech is vowelly?
Vowelly is an adjective.

Words near vowelly in the dictionary

  1. vowellessness
  2. vowellike
  3. vowelling
  4. vowellings
  5. Vowells
  6. vowelly
  7. vowels
  8. vowely
  9. vower
  10. vowers
  11. vowes

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