- grammarly.com blog/portmanteaus/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?
- dailywritingtips.com portmanteau-words/These are called “portmanteau” words. The word “portmanteau” originally meant a sort of large traveling bag.
- interestingliterature.com 2020/04/what-is-a-…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.
- http://electricka.com etaf/muses/languagearts/words/…But in English, the word portmanteau also has a second and different meaning, one that refers to a type of word rather than to a suitcase.
- twominenglish.com what-is-portmanteau/The portmanteau definition describes a word formed by blending the sounds and meanings of at least two other words.
- literarydevices.net portmanteau/Portmanteau, on the other hand, shares the same semantic features. For example, the word “brunch” is formed by splicing two words “breakfast” and “lunch.”
- usingenglish.com Grammar & Vocab portmanteau-word'Swatch' is a portmanteau word formed from Swiss watch, 'brunch' is formed from Breakfast and lunch.
- britannica.com Geography & Travel LanguagesA portmanteau word is a blend of two or more words, or parts of words, that expresses the combined meaning of those words.
- en.wiktionary.org wiki/portmanteau_wordA note by the owner of the volume explains the word as a combination of tomahawk and axe: "It is a portmanteau word, which must have been as clear to the...
- pennyspoetry.fandom.com wiki/Portmanteau_wordIn music fandom, the word stan, which came into use after rapper Eminem released a song with the same name, is a portmanteau of stalker and fan.