Associations to the word «Bowdlerise»

Wiktionary

BOWDLERISE, verb. Alternative form of bowdlerize
BOWDLERISE, verb. Alternative form of bowdlerize

Dictionary definition

BOWDLERISE, verb. Edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate; "bowdlerize a novel".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope