English
emvowel
Emvowel comes from English embowel ‘disembowel’.
- English1500–presentembowel‘disembowel’
- Englishearliest quotation 1747emvowel
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- English1500–presentembowel‘disembowel’
- Englishearliest quotation 1747emvowel
Earliest quotation: 1747, Henry Fielding, The Gentleman's Magazine: “And as for all the words I embowel, or…”
The story
Coined by Henry Fielding (1707-1754) as a jocular alteration of embowel (‘disembowel’).
Every English word from English embowel
Today it means
verb To replace a portion of a person's name with a dash in printing, in order to avoid libel.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / English embowel / emvowel