- portmanteau word as a noun:
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portmanteau word
noun
1 portmanteau word
A new word formed by joining two others and combining their meanings:
— `motel' is a portmanteau word made by combining `motor' and `hotel'.
synonyms: blend, portmanteau.
Roget 572: conciseness etc. adj.; brevity, the soul of wit," laconism†; Tacitus; ellipsis; syncope; abridgment etc. (shortening) 201; ... show more
Dutch: mengwoord
Polish: kompozycja, wyraz złożony, złożenie
Moby thesaurus: ambiguity, amphibology, blend, contamination, counterword, double entendre, equivocal, equivocality, equivocation, equivoque, hybrid, hybrid word, hybridism, macaronic, macaronicism, polysemant, portmanteau, portmantologism, pun, squinting construction ... show more.
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