- 2. a two-compartment suitcase that has not been manufactured since the 1800s. 1. Wikipedia is a portmanteau of the words "wienie" and "encyclopedia".
- A portmanteau word is a word made by blending the meanings and parts of the spellings of two or more other words.
- They are sometimes termed intercalative blends; these words are among the original "portmanteaus" for which this meaning of the word was created.[14].
- Interestingly, the word portmanteau is formed by blending two French words, porter (“to carry”) and Manteau (“cloak”).
- Interestingly, the word portmanteau itself is also a blend of two different words: porter (to carry) and manteau (a cloak).
- 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.
- The overall narrator of this portmanteau story - for Dickens co-wrote it with five collaborators on his weekly periodical, All the Year Round - expresses...
- a. A word formed by merging the sounds and meanings of two different words, as chortle, from chuckle and snort. Also called portmanteau word.