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Portmanteau - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Definition from Wiktionary, a free dictionary ... The following are examples of portmanteau words - A word formed which combines the meaning of two words (or, rarely, more than two words) by combining the words, usually, but not always, by adjoining the first part of one word and the last part of the ... for example, smog,
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Sing-Song Words: Reduplicatives and Rhyming Words ... Portmanteaus or Blends ... This page once featured squeasel words; otherwise known as portmanteaus or blends. If you know of other squeasel words or portmanteaus, send email with details to John Kremer. Thanks for your continued support.
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Portmanteaus (or portmanteaux) are commonly used in the Homestar Runner universe. A portmanteau is a combination of two or more words to make a new word or phrase, often going against the accepted traditions of how words are compounded.
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portmanteaus uses Flickr – so can you! ... Great Mail Day Close Up by portmanteaus ... Mail from France by portmanteaus...
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Posted in Linguistics in the comics, Portmanteaus | 2 Comments » ... In some portmanteaus, one of the contributing words appears intact (and the other appears only in abbreviated form); this is the case for memebrid, where meme appears intact, while hybrid is shortened to -brid.
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The standard linguistic term for this type of word is a blend. It was Lewis Carroll in Through The Looking Glass who coined the word portmanteau to describe them. In the book Humpty ... 'Lithe' is the same word as 'active'. ... So, a portmanteau or blend word is one derived by combining portions of two or more separate words.
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