- a word arbitrarily formed of two distinct words. chortle , from chuckle and snort; cyclotron, from cycle and electron. ... Get the portmanteau word mug.
- The word “jackalope” is a portmanteau of “jackrabbit” and “antelope”, an archaic spelling of “antelope”.
- A quite recent portmanteau word that always makes me smile is the term for a flaky, iced pastry which is a cross between a croissant and a doughnut: A cronut!
- There are many different ways of reducing your word count in your writing. And here’s the best-kept one, which no one has told you about: using portmanteau words.
- So for example, you could enter "neologism" and click "filter", and it'd give you words that are related to portmanteau word and neologism.
- A.Word.A.Day. with Anu Garg. portmanteau. ... 'Lithe' is the same as 'active'. You see it's like a portmanteau -- there are two meanings packed up into one word."
- So many of the words created our dozens of neologism contests over the decades are portmanteau words, the combination of two words.
- Humpty Dumpty's theory, of two meanings packed into one word like a portmanteau, seems to me the right explanation for all.
- A portmanteau word is a word formed by merging the sounds and meanings of two or more other words. More formally known as a blend.
- Don’t know what a portmanteau is? If you have heard of the words brunch, blog and pixel, then yes, you know portmanteaus (just not what they are).