portmanteau word

How To Use portmanteau word In A Sentence

• Such novels may be written in a seemingly unintelligible stream of consciousness style, contain puns, portmanteau words, even retreat into a private language.
• The school student may be too naive to know that karaoke is a portmanteau word blending two Japanese words: ‘kara’ meaning empty (as in karate meaning empty hand) and oke (short for okesutora meaning orchestra).
• It's a portmanteau word combining dodgy and hotpot, and means a talking horse - another term in the lexicon - which should be avoided by punters at all costs.
• Portmanteau is itself a portmanteau word formed from the French words porter (“to carry”) and manteau (“cloak”). June « 2008 « Sentence first
• I'd experience a form of parental sorrow that should be endowed with a German portmanteau word, say, Mutterkinderwinterfahrenschade.
• I have just invented a portmanteau word - Crumpety - Crotchety and Grumpy.
• The four short interludes don't do much except show Johnson's talent for the portmanteau word.
• Recently, I had to go to Maryland, which I pronounce Maryland, it being, as far as I can tell, a portmanteau word, made up of Mary and land.
• I had to look up the word roil there as I was worried I had just created a portmanteau word from Boil and Oil - well sort of portmanteau but it does mean in a state of turbulence or agitation.
• The Wake's hybridist nature extends beyond genre, even beyond portmanteau words, indeed to the most atomic level of text (letters, punctuation, sigla of all forms).