- usage_en.en-academic.com 3569/portmanteau_wordsportmanteau word — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms portmanteau word : singular portmanteau word plural portmanteau words linguistics a word...
- enchantedlearning.com grammar/compoundwords/…A portmanteau word is a type of compound word in which some sounds (phonemes) are blended rather than combined whole.
- en.wikipedia.org Blend wordCoordinate blends (also called associative or portmanteau blends) combine two words having equal status, and have two heads.
- prosperoenglish.com posts/vocabulary/portmanteau-…Today we’ll be talking about some portmanteau words. These are words that blend the sounds and combine the meanings of two other words.
- poemanalysis.com literary-device/portmanteau/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.
- r-bloggers.com 2023/10/portmanteau-words/List Portmanteau words. A Portmanteau word is made by starting few alphabets from Word1 and starting or ending few alphabets from Word2.
- thinkzone.wlonk.com WordFun/PortWords.htmPortmanteau words are words made from two or more other words. I wrote a program to generate some portmanteau words using a thesaurus (WordNet).
- usingenglish.com reference/portmanteau-word/A portmanteau word is formed out of parts of other words. Oxbridge is made up from parts of the names of Oxford and Cambridge and refers to either of the...
- simple.wikipedia.org Portmanteau wordExamples[change | change source]. Portmanteau itself is an example, combining the French words for carry (porter) and coat (manteau) into a coat carrier.
- wordsmith.org words/portmanteau.htmlThis week's words diptych snake_eyes portmanteau zwieback dicephalous. ... You see it's like a portmanteau -- there are two meanings packed up into one word."