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 List of portmanteaux - Definition 

This is a partial list of portmanteaux or "blends" — words formed by combining two other words, in the English language.

Contents

General

  • faction from fact and fiction
  • fantabulous from fantastic and fabulous
  • folksonomy from folk + taxonomy
  • foon from fork and spoon (see also spork, below)
  • Franglais from français (French for "French") and anglais (French for "English") (see also —lish, below)
  • frankenfood from Frankenstein and food
  • frankenword from Frankenstein and word
  • galumph from gallop and triumph
  • ginormous from gigantic and enormous
  • grue from green and blue (see bleen, above)
  • guesstimate from guess and estimate
  • gymnatorium from gymnasium and auditorium; a room, usually in a school, used for both purposes; see also cafetorium)
  • hasbian from has been and lesbian
  • knork from knife and fork - a fork with an outer tine sharpened slightly to enhance the cutting ability of the tine
  • —lish used as a suffix to form many frankenwords meaning foreign varieties of English (see also Franglais, above):
    • Chinglish (Chinese)
    • Germlish or Denglish (German)
    • Hebrish (Hebrew)
    • Hinglish (Hindi)
    • Japlish (Japanese)
    • Konglish (Korean)
    • Malglish (Malaysian)
    • Russlish (Russian)
    • Singlish (Singaporean)
    • Spanglish (Spanish)
    • Swedlish (Swedish)
  • lupper from lunch and supper
Usually means "to delay simply because it feels good", occasionally "to indulge in unnecessary, self-involved pedantry". From the broader definitions of masturbatory as simply "pleasurable", or sometimes "excessively self-involved".
  • prosumer from either producer or professional and consumer
  • yestergay from yesterday and gay

Internet and computing

Marketing

Art, literature and entertainment

Organizations and companies

  • Accenture from accent and future (accent on the future)
  • Carborundum (original manufacturer of the abrasive, carborundum) from carbon and corundum.
  • Compaq from computer, pack, and compact (to denote a small integral object)
  • CONMEBOL from Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol (Spanish for "South American Football Confederation")
  • CONELRAD
  • Debian from founder Ian Murdock and his wife Debra
  • Edexcel from educational and excellence
  • Intel from integrated and electronics
  • Verizon from veritas (Latin for truth) and horizon
  • Waitrose from founders' names Wallace Waite and Arthur Rose

Animals

By Lewis Carroll in Jabberwocky

  • burbled is not a portmanteau nor a coinage, but a legitimate dictionary word derived from the Middle English "burblen."

Politics and economics

See also


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