a. [f. VOWEL sb. + -Y1.] Having many vowels; characterized by vowels.
1712. Mrs. Centlivre, Perplexed Lovers, V. i. Sir Rog. This Italian is very vowelly, it runs much upon the o methinks.
1841. D’Israeli, Amen. Lit. (1867), 97. The Northmen, in the shock of their hard, redundant consonants, lost the vowelly confluence.
1883. Advance (Chicago), 6 Dec. In their solt, vowely tongue.
