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  • portmanteau word,
    also called
    blend,
    a word that results from blending two or more words, or parts of words, such that the portmanteau word expresses some combination of the meaning of its parts. Examples in English include chortle (from chuckle and snort), smog (from smoke and fog), brunch (from breakfast and lunch), mockumentary (from mock and documentary), and spork (from spoon and fork).
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  • A portmanteau is a linguistic blend that occurs when the sounds, spellings and meanings of two words are combined to make a new one.
  • The visitors are welcome to send in the Portmanteau words that they come across to us so that we will add those words in this list and acknowledging the sender.
  • You may not have heard of portmanteau words, but once you've read this list of examples of portmanteaus, you'll realize how common they are!
  • These are called “portmanteauwords. The wordportmanteau” originally meant a sort of large traveling bag.
  • A portmanteau word is a word made by blending the meanings and parts of the spellings of two or more other words.
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  • For example breathalyzer is the portmanteau word formed from combining breath and analyzer, while blog is derived from the source words web and log.
  • The portmanteau word that's formed from these other words is a novel combination of the original sounds and meanings of the words it came from.
  • Portmanteau words are also to be found in the world of politics, and surely the most famous of them is a portmanteau of British+ exit or Brexit.
  • In Through a Looking-Glass (1871) he wrote: ‘You see, it’s like a portmanteau … there are two meanings packed up in the one word’.