- Incidentally, the original French word "portemanteau" is a portmanteau. "Porte" means carries and "manteau" means coat, so a portemanteau is something that...
- ] "Portmanteau word" is used to describe a linguistic blend, namely "a word formed by blending sounds from two or more distinct words and combining their...
- portmanteau (n.) 1580s, "flexible traveling case or bag for clothes and other necessaries," from Middle French portemanteau "traveling bag," originally "court official...
- A portmanteau (also called a blend) is a literary device in which two or more words are joined together by merging or dropping some letters and sounds.
- a. A word formed by merging the sounds and meanings of two different words, as chortle, from chuckle and snort. Also called portmanteau word.
- A portmanteau is a word created by blending sounds and meanings from multiple other words (e.g., friend + enemy = frenemy).
- A portmanteau is a newly created word that results from combining two other words together. It should refer to a single concept, event, job, idea, event, etc.
- The word Portmanteau is derived from the French word portmanteau, combined from porter (to carry) and manteau(mantle).
- Rodolphus therefore finding such an earnest Invitation, embrac'd it with thanks, and with his Servant and Portmanteau, went to Don Juan's...
- explains to a confused Alice how two words can be packed. together, like compartments in a portmanteau suitcase: Well, “slithy” means “lithe and slimy”.