- Portmanteau - Portmanteau. Gezintiye atla Aramaya atla. Sesleri karıştıran ve diğer iki diğerinin anlamlarını birleştiren sözcük.
- Examples of portmanteau: Brunch – This word is a combination of “breakfast” and “lunch,” and refers to a meal that is eaten in the late morning or early afternoon.
- A portmanteau word is a blend of two or more words, or parts of words, that expresses the combined meaning of those words.
- First, let's define portmanteau. A portmanteau word is a words that is made by combining two other words.
- The word portmanteau (meaning a blend of words) was introduced by Lewis Caroll in the 1871 book Through the Looking-Glass.
- "Smirting is a portmanteau word, formed by packing parts of two words together to create another, combining the sense of each."
- These are called “portmanteau” words. The word “portmanteau” originally meant a sort of large traveling bag.
- Tulkinghorn says nothing, but stands, ever, near the old portmanteau. "In the first place, here's an old portmanteau, sir," says Snagsby.
- portmanteau — NOUN (pl. portmanteaus or portmanteaux) 1) a large travelling bag made of stiff leather and opening into two equal parts.
- The linguistic sense of portmanteau is a single-morpheme word that substitutes for (and functions grammatically as) two morphemes.