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a new word formed by joining two others and combining their meanings
`brunch' is a well-known portmanteau
`smog' is a blend of `smoke' and `fog'
`motel' is a portmanteau word made by combining `motor' and `hotel'
How To Use portmanteau word In A Sentence
- It is written in a unique and extremely difficult style, making use of puns and portmanteau words (using at least 40 languages besides English), and a very wide range of allusion.
- `motel' is a portmanteau word made by combining `motor' and `hotel'
- It's a portmanteau word, from calidid and tierra (land or soil).
- Although manteau = cloak and portmanteau = carry + cloak, "portmanteau word" was a coinage by Lewis Carroll, to refer to words like "chortle" chuckle + snort and so called because it resembled the Gladstone bag style of portmanteau, which has two equal compartments that fasten together in the middle. Making Light: Open thread 136
- Moeurs is a portmanteau word for both morals and manners: which shall it be? The Times Literary Supplement
- Then he would have told you that cremains falls into the same category as brunch and is known as a portmanteau word. New York Review: The Collected Stories Of Lydia Davis
- Laforgue puns, makes up portmanteau words and re-applies tags from the natural language, the Christian liturgy and well-known works of literature.
- A portmanteau word combining smoke and fog, the term was popularized by H. A. Des Voeux in his report to the Manchester Conference of the Smoke Abatement League of Great Britain in 1911.
- The portmanteau is out of fashion but the portmanteau word is not.
- True, but it's still a mindless portmanteau word, like 'mantyhose'. Times, Sunday Times
