- A portmanteau is a word created by blending sounds and meanings from multiple other words (e.g., friend + enemy = frenemy).
- a. A word formed by merging the sounds and meanings of two different words, as chortle, from chuckle and snort. Also called portmanteau word.
- The word Portmanteau is derived from the French word portmanteau, combined from porter (to carry) and manteau(mantle).
- How to pronounce Portmanteau? Portmanteau is pronounced as “port-man-toh” from the French words for “porter” and “mantle”.
- portmanteau (n.) 1580s, "flexible traveling case or bag for clothes and other necessaries," from Middle French portemanteau "traveling bag," originally "court official...
- 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.
- E.g. could not = couldn’t, do not = don’t. In case of portmanteau words, two different words are related to form a new word with a new concept.
- 36. Chocoholic: A portmanteau of ‘chocolate’ and ‘alcoholic’, used to describe a person who is excessively fond of chocolate. Animal Portmanteau Examples.
- Rodolphus therefore finding such an earnest Invitation, embrac'd it with thanks, and with his Servant and Portmanteau, went to Don Juan's...