How To Use Portmanteau word In A Sentence
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Such novels may be written in a seemingly unintelligible stream of consciousness style, contain puns, portmanteau words, even retreat into a private language.
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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).
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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.
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Portmanteau is itself a portmanteau word formed from the French words porter (“to carry”) and manteau (“cloak”).
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I'd experience a form of parental sorrow that should be endowed with a German portmanteau word, say, Mutterkinderwinterfahrenschade.
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I have just invented a portmanteau word - Crumpety - Crotchety and Grumpy.
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The four short interludes don't do much except show Johnson's talent for the portmanteau word.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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It is written in a unique and extremely difficult style, making use of puns and portmanteau words (using at least 40 languages besides English), and a very wide range of allusion.
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True, but it's still a mindless portmanteau word, like 'mantyhose'.
Times, Sunday Times
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The portmanteau is out of fashion but the portmanteau word is not.
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A portmanteau word combining smoke and fog, the term was popularized by H. A. Des Voeux in his report to the Manchester Conference of the Smoke Abatement League of Great Britain in 1911.
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Laforgue puns, makes up portmanteau words and re-applies tags from the natural language, the Christian liturgy and well-known works of literature.
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Then he would have told you that cremains falls into the same category as brunch and is known as a portmanteau word.
New York Review: The Collected Stories Of Lydia Davis
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Moeurs is a portmanteau word for both morals and manners: which shall it be?
The Times Literary Supplement
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Although manteau = cloak and portmanteau = carry + cloak, "portmanteau word" was a coinage by Lewis Carroll, to refer to words like "chortle" chuckle + snort and so called because it resembled the Gladstone bag style of portmanteau, which has two equal compartments that fasten together in the middle.
Making Light: Open thread 136
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It's a portmanteau word, from calidid and tierra (land or soil).
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`motel' is a portmanteau word made by combining `motor' and `hotel'
