- 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...
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- englishtutorialedu.com 2020/12/16/portmanteau-…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.
- 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.
- dictionary.com browse/portmanteauPortmanteau definition: a case or bag to carry clothing in while traveling, especially a leather trunk or suitcase that opens into two halves..
- 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”.
- swap.stanford.edu was/20090825165935mp_/http://en…Similarly Eurasia is a portmanteau of Europe and Asia. "Wikipedia" is an example of a portmanteau; it combines the word "wiki" with the word "encyclopedia".
- quillbot.com blog/portmanteau/A portmanteau (also called a blend) is a literary device in which two or more words are joined together by merging or dropping some letters and sounds.
- scribbr.com rhetoric/portmanteau/A portmanteau is a word created by blending sounds and meanings from multiple other words (e.g., friend + enemy = frenemy).
- languagehumanities.org what-are-portmanteau-…Portmanteau words, also called blended words or simply portmanteaux, are words that are formed by splicing or merging two other words together.