English edit

Etymology edit

vowel +‎ -y

Adjective edit

vowelly (comparative more vowelly, superlative most vowelly)

  1. Characteristic of, or containing, vowels.
    • 2008, Jonathan Miles, Dear American Airlines, page 62:
      Syl was really big into Third World lit, Stella Jr. said, mentioning a couple of postcolonial writers from the Indian subcontinent with whom I was familiar only as vowelly names on book spines.