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voweled

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voweled (not comparable)

  1. Alternative form of vowelled
    • 1897 November 18, Fannie Brigham Ward, “Quaint Cartago. Droll Sights and Scenes in the Oldest City of Central America. House-Keeping A La Castellano.”, in The Republican Journal, volume 69, number 46, Belfast, Me., page 3, column 2:
      Squatted behind their serones of fruits and vegetables, their wedges of goat’s-milk cheese and cones of coarse brown sugar, or double rows of bottles of guarado, (the unfermented juice of sugar-cane) they expatiate upon the merits of their merchandise in shrill but soft-voweled Castellano that wheedles the last penny out of your purse.
    • 1988, Spy, page 32:
      It is pleasing to think how intensely Weiner must suffer in New York City, where even educated natives grunt a brick-tongued, boomerang-voweled, Stallonian yo-patois.