Portmanteaus

When two words are blended together to create one word, using only a portion of each word.Examples:(Internet)=Interconnected + Network(Brunch)= Breakfast + Lunch(Moped)= Motor + Pedal(Bash)= Bang + Smash



portmanteau
The combination of two or more words to create a new word. Also known as a frankenword or blend.

(sources: tnellen.com/cybereng/lit_terms and the wikipedia)
Example:
smog is the combination of smoke and fog

Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky is loaded with portmanteau words.


portmanteau
a cliche and uncreative technique to form new words - almost anyone who can speak a language can fabricate words by butchering two perfectly good words and using cheap glue to form one ugly word
Example:
Awful portmanteau words include "brangelina", "craptacular", "adorkable" and "soquid".


portmanteau
"'A large leather suitcase.' from French, port- (carry) and manteau (cloak)." Source: Dictionary.com(www.dictionary.com), retrieved 11/19/05.
Example:
"...sent her things on ahead via two steamer trunks, a hatbox, and an enormous portmanteau, covered in crocodile"


portmanteau
1. an archaic word used by prissy netymologists on Wikipedia and Word Spy that means a blend word. A word formed by combining parts of two words

2. a two-compartment suitcase that has not been manufactured since the 1800s.

Example:
1. Wikipedia is a portmanteau of the words "wienie" and "encyclopedia".

2. I wonder if the luggage museum has a portmanteau?


Portmanteau
When two words are combined together making a new word!
Example:
Clone: HOLA!
(gunshot)
Clone: Adios!
Dan: Who was that?
Tom: That was Spanish Dan, I called him Span.
Dan: why?
Tom: It's a portmanteau of Spanish and Dan.


Freudian Portmanteau
When a Freudian Slip occurs whitin a single word and it forms a new word out of two or more words that previously existed separately.
Example:
Freudian Portmanteau: "These Notifuckations won't go away!"


Internal Portmanteau
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.

IP = Internal Portmanteau
Example:
Examples of Internal Portmanteau:

Television --> Tevion (2 IP's) (pronounced "teh-vyun")

Mathematician --> Matician (1 IP) (pronounced "ma-tish-un")

Fabulous! --> Fabus! (1 IP) (pronounced "fab-ous")


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