vowelish
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English
Etymology
Adjective
vowelish (comparative more vowelish, superlative most vowelish)
- Of the nature of a vowel; similar to 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
References
- “vowelish”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.