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Definition of Bowdlerized

Bowdlerized
Bowdlerize Bowd"ler*ize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bowdlerized; p. pr. & vb. n. Bowdlerizing.] [After Dr. Thomas Bowdler, an English physician, who published an expurgated edition of Shakespeare in 1818.] To expurgate, as a book, by omitting or modifying the parts considered offensive. It is a grave defect in the splendid tale of Tom Jones . . . that a Bowlderized version of it would be hardly intelligible as a tale. --F. Harrison. -- Bowd`ler*i*za"tion, n. -- Bowd"ler*ism, n.

Meaning of Bowdlerized from wikipedia

- Old Scottish Language") continued to be republished only in heavily bowdlerized editions by puritanical censors throughout the 18th and 19th centuries...
- separate volumes, e.g. The Fellowship of the Ring. Dyson's actual comment, bowdlerized in the TV version, was "Not another ****ing Elf!" Grovier, Kelly (29...
- military acronym meaning "Situation Normal, All ****ed Up", sometimes Bowdlerized as "situation normal, all fouled up". Private Snafu Raymond, Eric S.;...
- translations of this kind, such as that of Edward Lane (1840, 1859), were bowdlerized. Unabridged and unexpurgated translations were made, first by John Payne...
- Thomas Hardy. It was written in 1866 but first published, in a slightly bowdlerized form, in Poems of the Past and the Present (1901). Thomas Hardy's "The...
- originally stood for "Status Nominal: All ****ed Up." It is sometimes bowdlerized to all fouled up or similar. It means that the situation is bad, but...
- ****house (bowdlerized in marketing material as S#!%house and released in some territories as Freshman Year) is a 2020 American coming-of-age comedy-drama...
- an acronym for Situation unchanged: still ****ed up, but can also be bowdlerized—just like SNAFU—to Situation unchanged: still fouled up. It is used in...
- (1973) Time Masters (1982) Gandahar (1987) (released in the U.S. in bowdlerized form under the title Light Years) Short films Tick-Tock (Tic-Tac) (1957)...
- Nijinsky; it was based largely on the premier danseur's personal diaries (a bowdlerized 1936 version was edited and published by his wife, Romola de Pulszky)...