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portmanteau word

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Noun

1. blend

2. portmanteau, neologism, neology, coinage

Usage
Some Double-Duty Buzzwords for the Public Sector - Governing
‘Slithy,’ ‘chortle,’ and other portmanteau words - The Christian Science Monitor
“It was just the name that rhymed with ‘fan’”: Eminem’s ex-manager says 'Stan' was not a deliberate portmanteau - MusicRadar
18 Portmanteau Words That Will Totally Surprise You - Reader's Digest
In a Word: Fantabulous Portmanteau Words - The Saturday Evening Post
Column: The portmanteau word, two meanings packed into one - Richmond News
I’ve only got one word for you portmanteau addicts - The Guardian
Down the rabbit hole: How crypto impacts the English language - dlnews.com
After “Romantasy,” What Are the Next Buzzy Bookish Portmanteaus? - Book Riot
Word of the Day for October 30, 2025: portmanteau - ABS-CBN
Portmanfaux (Published 2018) - The New York Times
The Art of the Portmanteau: 50 Modern Word Mashups in Pop Culture - Complex
Here's your Connections hint for Sunday Mar 15 - Rock Paper Shotgun
Normcore: Just Your Average, Everyday Paradox - The Atlantic
Taking your ‘frenemy’ to see ‘Barbenheimer’ after ‘brunch’? We all are. - Inquirer.com
‘Chortle,’ and other words invented by Lewis Carroll - Columbia Journalism Review
All Of These Words Are Made Up Of Two Words — Do You Know Which Ones? - BuzzFeed
Why Do Philadelphians Just Love to Play With the Word "Philadelphia"? - Philadelphia Magazine
Trivially Speaking: Sniglets have a way with words - Reporter-Herald
Frankenwords: they're alive! But for how long? | Andy Bodle - The Guardian
early meanings of the portmanteau ‘screenager’ - word histories
A herstory (or mansplanation) of portpersonteau words - The Week
Today's NYT Strands Hints (and Answer) for Monday, December 16, 2024 - Lifehacker
May I have a word: Stains and the pains they give us - The Boston Globe
'Delulu,' 'Skibidi' and 'Tradwife' Are Among More Than 6,000 Words Added to the Cambridge Dictionary - Smithsonian Magazine
Celebrating Juneteenth with lem-biscus juice, forming a portmanteau like the holiday name - The Hutchinson News
The art of mashing up words to invent new ones - BBC
A linguistic tour of the best libfixes, from -ana to -zilla - The Week
Australian National University’s word of the year is a portmanteau for cost-of-living rage - The Guardian
‘Phablet,’ the word we love to hate - Computerworld
Questioningly: Needia, Fauxlaws, and Other New Words - The New Yorker
6 Types of Word-Formation in English - ThoughtCo
Phablets and fauxhawks: the linguistic secrets of a good blended word - The Guardian
The great word hunt: U of T expert is helping to put a little more Canada in the Oxford English Dictionary - University of Toronto
Susie Dent on portmanteau: Mashing up words to create new ones - BBC
‘Bro’ talk - Inquirer.net
What 'cagongjok' reveal about Korean culture, psyche - The Korea Herald
How authors from Dickens to Dr Seuss invented the words we use every day - The Guardian
Portmanteaus deconstructed: a guide to blended words - thenewworld.co.uk
Blended words? There’s a name for that - The Oklahoman
Mansplain is Australian word of the year - The Guardian
What Are Open Class Words in English? - ThoughtCo
Homintern by Gregory Woods review – a gay conspiracy in the arts? - The Guardian
Brandtastic: the branding power of portmanteaus - talk-business.co.uk
Can Marijuana Use Lead to Simultaneous Screaming and Vomiting? - Snopes.com
How Brexit is changing the English language - qz.com
LITERARY DISCOURSE: Word Formation [Part Three] - Modern Ghana
Whimsical words coined by Lewis Carroll - The Times of India
Adorkable – it's in the dictionary but, please, don't ever say it out loud - The Guardian
Oxford Dictionaries Prepares New Volume for Modern-Day Portmanteaus - Waterford Whispers News
With 'Megxit', we've fallen into a lazy, unfair and age-old misogynist trap - ABC News & Headlines – Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Turns out ‘twerking’ dates back almost 200 years - Stylist
Is 'ProCro' a Real-Estate Naming Gimmick Gone Too Far? -- New York Magazine - Nymag - New York Magazine
French Word of the Day: Mot-valise - The Local France
Which Canadian invention is one of the world's most consumed edible oils? - CBC
Twixmas break: Why is it called Twixmas and what does Twixtmas mean? - BBC
13 Bullshit Terms Created By the Bullshit Advertising Industry By Inelegantly Smashing Other Words Together - Cracked.com
How Language Evolves With Coining of New Words - The New Indian Express
Word of the Issue: Djammviskubit - The Reykjavík Grapevine
PFRA to use the word 'chugger' where appropriate - UK Fundraising
NYT Connections Today: Hints and Answers for March 15, 2026 – Puzzle #1008 Solved - International Business Times Australia
I Mash Together Random Words To Create New Ones, Here’re 30 Of Them - Bored Panda
Portmanteaus words explained, and 14 best examples like podcast, Netflix and Pokemon - NationalWorld
Viewers 'blame' writers for 'hard' Double Jeopardy! category that left contestants stumped - The Mirror US
13 Brilliant New Words Invented In The most Inspiring Place – A Toilet - Bored Panda
Foreign Language Equivalents
Foreign Language Equivalents of 'portmanteau word'
Language Equivalent   Language Equivalent
French    Spanish
Misspellings - Typos
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Words Starting with Letter - 'A'
a a battery a billion
a bit a bit much a capella singing
a cappella singing a couple of a few
a fortiori a good deal a great deal
a horizon a hundred a hundred and one
a hundred thousand a hundred times a kempis
a la carte a la mode a level
a little a lot a million
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