disemvowelment

English

Etymology

Blend of disembowelment +‎ vowel.

Noun

disemvowelment (uncountable)

  1. The act of disemvoweling.
    • 2008 July 7, Noam Cohen, “Poof! You’re Unpublished.”, in The New York Times‎:
      Ms. Hayden has been credited with one of the more creative online responses to nasty commentators – disemvowelment, the removal of all the vowels from a post. Not quite censorship, but not exactly unfettered commentary, either.
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