- Coordinate blends (also called associative or portmanteau blends) combine two words having equal status, and have two heads.
- The French word portmanteau describes a two-part suitcase. It combines the words porte, which means “to carry,” and manteau, meaning “cloak.”
- 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).
- portmanteau (n.) 1580s, "flexible traveling case or bag for clothes and other necessaries," from Middle French portemanteau "traveling bag," originally "court official...
- Published on June 27, 2024 by Kassiani Nikolopoulou, MSc. A portmanteau is a word created by combining two other words.
- Portmanteau: What is a Portmanteau, Portmanteau Examples, Pokémon Portmanteau. Поиск.6 bin görüntülemeYayınlandı1 Mar 2019
- 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...