- Portmanteau - what is it? Causing a word to become shorter by joining the ends at a common letter. Can be done more than once in long words, or phrases.
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- 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".
- For instance, starfish is a compound, not a portmanteau, of star and fish; whereas a hypothetical portmanteau of star and fish might be stish.
- A portmanteau is a linguistic blend that occurs when the sounds, spellings and meanings of two words are combined to make a new one.
- The portmanteau is an extremely lazy way of producing neologisms, often used by women's magazines, religious groups, extremists...
- the heroine is a portmanteau figure of all the virtues. Also called: portmantle. Collins English Dictionary.
- If I run down to the Dedlock, and get my portmanteau fastened up, and order a gig, or a chaise, or whatever's to be got, we shall have an hour then before starting.
- A portmanteau word is a new word formed by combining two words, particularly the beginning of one word and the ending of the second word.
- A portmanteau word is a type of compound word in which some sounds (phonemes) are blended rather than combined whole.