- grammarly.com blog/portmanteaus/The French word portmanteau describes a two-part suitcase. It combines the words porte, which means “to carry,” and manteau, meaning “cloak.”
- thefreedictionary.com portmanteaua. A word formed by merging the sounds and meanings of two different words, as chortle, from chuckle and snort. Also called portmanteau word.
- hongkiat.com blog/portmanteaus/Don’t know what a portmanteau is? If you have heard of the words brunch, blog and pixel, then yes, you know portmanteaus (just not what they are).
- scribbr.com rhetoric/portmanteau/A portmanteau is a word created by blending sounds and meanings from multiple other words (e.g., friend + enemy = frenemy).
- etymonline.com word/portmanteauportmanteau (n.) 1580s, "flexible traveling case or bag for clothes and other necessaries," from Middle French portemanteau "traveling bag," originally "court official...
- tvtropes.org Tropes PortmanteauIncidentally, the original French word "portemanteau" is a portmanteau. "Porte" means carries and "manteau" means coat, so a portemanteau is something that...
- english-for-students.com Portmanteau-Words.htmlThe word Portmanteau is derived from the French word portmanteau, combined from porter (to carry) and manteau(mantle).
- seslisozluk.net portmanteau-nedir-ne-demek/Rodolphus therefore finding such an earnest Invitation, embrac'd it with thanks, and with his Servant and Portmanteau, went to Don Juan's...
- port-manteau.com portmanteau-definedexplains to a confused Alice how two words can be packed. together, like compartments in a portmanteau suitcase: Well, “slithy” means “lithe and slimy”.
- poemanalysis.com literary-device/portmanteau/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.