emvowel

verb /ɪmˈvaʊ.əl/

1. To replace a portion of a person's name with a dash in printing, in order to avoid libel.

   dated

   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.

Where it comes from

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

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry emvowel (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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