- First, let's define portmanteau. A portmanteau word is a words that is made by combining two other words.
- A portmanteau is a blended word made of two or more other words. Portmanteau words adopt the meanings of both words. Why is it called a portmanteau?
- 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.
- It is a portmanteau of the words hungry and angry. What is cant called? A contraction is a word made by shortening and combining two words.
- Coordinate blends (also called associative or portmanteau blends) combine two words having equal status, and have two heads.
- "Smirting is a portmanteau word, formed by packing parts of two words together to create another, combining the sense of each."
- Today we’ll be talking about some portmanteau words. These are words that blend the sounds and combine the meanings of two other words.
- A one-sentence definition is easy enough: a portmanteau word is, in summary, a word that has been formed by blending two existing words together.
- James Joyce makes frequent use of portmanteau words in Finnegans Wake, such as amuckst (amongst and amuck) and rugaby (rugby and rockabye).
- 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’.