" portmanteau "

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

  * e.g.,  ... smog is the combination of smoke and fog 

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2: (sources: tnellen.com/cybereng/lit_terms and the wikipedia)

  * e.g.,  ... Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky is loaded with portmanteau words. 

 [ "portmanteau" ]

1: 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

  * e.g.,  ... Awful portmanteau words include "brangelina", "craptacular", "adorkable" and "soquid". 

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1: "'A large leather suitcase.' from French, port- (carry) and manteau (cloak)." Source: Dictionary.com(www.dictionary.com), retrieved 11/19/0

  * e.g.,  ...  "...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

  * e.g.,  ...  Wikipedia is a portmanteau of the words "wienie" and "encyclopedia". 

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

  * e.g.,  ...  I wonder if the luggage museum has a portmanteau? 

 [ "Portmanteaus" ]

1: When two words are blended together to create one word, using only a portion of each word. Examples: (Internet)=Interconnected + Network

  * e.g.,  ... Most people realize "Brunch" is a portmanteaus, but what about "Internet?" 

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2: (Brunch)= Breakfast + Lunch

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3: (Moped)= Motor + Pedal

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4: (Bash)= Bang + Smash

 [ "Portmanteau" ]

1: When two words are combined together making a new word!

  * e.g.,  ... Clone: HOLA! 

 [ "Freudian Portmanteau" ]

1: 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.

  * e.g.,  ... Freudian Portmanteau: "These Notifuckations won't go away!" 

 [ "portmanteau word" ]

1: a word arbitrarily formed of two distinct words

  * e.g.,  ... chortle, from chuckle and snort; cyclotron, from cycle and electron 

 [ "Internal Portmanteau" ]

1: 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

  * e.g.,  ... 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") 

 [ "portmanteau purloin" ]

1: when the government makes you think through esp that someone knows your whereabouts and is talking about you which distracts you from your daily tasks.

  * e.g.,  ... The portmanteau purloin put the majority of Americans living paycheck to paycheck because they couldn't pay attention.