Bowdlerize: Rarely necessary here
TDW: Bowdlerize
Def: (verb) to expurgate (cleanse) a piece of writing or content by omitting or modifying parts considered vulgar
Etymology: From a proper name, combined with an English element.
Etymons: proper name Bowdler, ‑ize suffix.
\ the name of Dr. T. Bowdler, who in 1818 published an edition of Shakespeare, ‘in which those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family’: see ‑ize suffix.
Written: Don Huely with ChatGPT
Edited: Dougie McFallendar
Advocate for the unbowdlerizing of TDW: Fergus O’Shaughnessy
Socials: Catarina Fraga
Music: Symphony No. 5 in C minor by Ludwig van Beethoven
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