vowelly
- a word derived from vowel.
Example Sentences
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At times she would actually substitute nonsense syllables for a song’s text, when she appeared to feel that the words as written, with their congestion of consonants, would impede the flow of pure, vowelly sound.
From New York Times ● Oct. 6, 2018
“You can hear a million insects,” he said, in his vowelly Dutch accent.
From The New Yorker ● May 16, 2016
He designed to relieve the ear from the clash of supernumerary consonants, and to liquify by a vowelly confluence.
From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac
His exquisite ear had felt the melody of the vowelly and voluble stanza of Italy, and to which he even added a grace of his own by a new measure, in the Alexandrine 476 close.
From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac
The Gaul,2 in cutting his words down, contracted a nasal sharpness; and the Northmen, in the shock of their hard, redundant consonants, lost the vowelly confluence.
From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac
