- portmanteau word — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms portmanteau word : singular portmanteau word plural portmanteau words linguistics a word...
- A portmanteau word is a type of compound word in which some sounds (phonemes) are blended rather than combined whole.
- Coordinate blends (also called associative or portmanteau blends) combine two words having equal status, and have two heads.
- 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 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.
- List Portmanteau words. A Portmanteau word is made by starting few alphabets from Word1 and starting or ending few alphabets from Word2.
- Portmanteau words are words made from two or more other words. I wrote a program to generate some portmanteau words using a thesaurus (WordNet).
- 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...
- Players think of portmanteau words and then challenge each other to identify their origins by naming the two words which are blended to create it.
- Examples[change | change source]. Portmanteau itself is an example, combining the French words for carry (porter) and coat (manteau) into a coat carrier.