vowelish
English
Etymology
vowel + -ish
Adjective
vowelish (comparative more vowelish, superlative most vowelish)
- Of the nature of a vowel.
- 1640, Ben Jonson, The English Grammar
- r Is a letter half vowelish; which, though the Italians (especially the Florentines) abhor, we keep entire with the Latins, and so pronounce
- 1640, Ben Jonson, The English Grammar
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for vowelish in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)