How To Use Portmanteau In A Sentence

He has already committed to shooting one third of the portmanteau film Eros, with directors he was worked with before.
Yet today the portmanteau is probably the most fertile vehicle for neologisms. Times, Sunday Times
Portmanteaux the lot of them. Times, Sunday Times
William chuckled and set his portmanteau on the sparkling floor.
Hemphill is actually surprisingly handsome, with startlingly blue eyes and an odd portmanteau accent that belies his formative years in Canada after being born in Glasgow.

The Official Secrets Act was described as a piece of portmanteau legislation, covering everything from nuclear weapons to army boots.
Slippers and boots lay about; the portmanteau yawned wide open, with some soiled shirts on the top; a pair of trousers trailed from a chair on the floor. A Mummer's Wife
The entries are a mix of the everyday, such as honeymoon and fury, and ones you probably don't think about, such as portmanteau and gorgonize. NPR Topics: News
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.
I have learned everything, everything!" said Cleek, and pouncing upon his portmanteau whisked out a couple of pairs of handcuffs. Cleek, the Master Detective
My rod, I might explain, was the trolling or sea fishing version of a capital greenheart portmanteau rod, to which I had treated myself in hopes of use in Canadian waters, and was a stiff little pole (in this form) of a trifle over 9 ft. Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler
I shall be very happy, however, to hear that the old portmanteau is safe at Scotsbrig, for 'you are the last man in England' that should, in the course of a kind Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
While Harris Interactive refers to those who surf the web for medical or health-related information as "cyberchondriacs", this is not exactly correct as the portmanteau derives from hypochondriasis, which is a morbid obsession with imaginary physical ailments whereas the adults surveyed in the poll merely admitted to looking online for health information. Silicon Republic - News
`motel' is a portmanteau word made by combining `motor' and `hotel'
London, he looked at _me_, then at _it_, suspiciously, as if doubting whether the possessor of such a little wayworn portmanteau could he the _bonâ fide_ owner of such a sum as the figures represented. The Englishwoman in America
It's a portmanteau word, from calidid and tierra (land or soil).
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
A portmanteau is a word that turns your wracked brain into a mental case. Making Light: Open thread 136
As a result Film Ing would be more appropriately described as a portmanteau movie, each part of which narrates a different story such as romance, travelogue and so on.
Rossini would preside at the first three representations, and, after receiving a grand civic banquet, set out for the next place, his portmanteau fuller of music-paper than of other effects, and perhaps a dozen sequins in his pocket. The Great Italian and French Composers
Last month Trevor posted a Wordie list, subtitled Econorrhea, of neologisms and portmanteaux having to do with the economic implosion, which he has now worked into a Jabberwocky parody* on Recessionwire — which is itself compiling the beginnings of what could be something fun: a recession lexicon. Beware the Econorrhea
I blame much of this stagnation on the label itself, a clunky portmanteau that suggests the collision rather than integration of ‘folk’ and ‘electronic’ music.
She said, ‘Bring me the piece that has the key to my portmanteau.’
Although our portmanteaus were sealed with lead, and we were provided with a passe-avant from the douane, our coach was searched at the gate of Paris by which we entered; and the women were obliged to get out, and stand in the open street, till this operation was performed. Travels through France and Italy
I rang the bell, and directed my servant to pack my portmanteau.
One they'd reached the carriage, the portmanteaux were tied in place, civil goodbyes were said between the royal family and the Davis girls, and the women stepped inside their carriage.
Yet today the portmanteau is probably the most fertile vehicle for neologisms. Times, Sunday Times
Within fifteen minutes the hall was a sea of bandboxes, hampers, portmanteaux. A Wicked Gentleman
Moeurs is a portmanteau word for both morals and manners: which shall it be? The Times Literary Supplement
‘Here, let's get your bags in out of the rain,’ she said, changing the subject and taking one of Adele's portmanteaus.
Paid my bill and got everything nicely packed up, managed to put all into my portmanteau excepting two coats which I put into the bag. A Journey to America in 1834
For Portmanteaus, Bags, Trunks, and all kinds of Travelling Scottish Football Reminiscences and Sketches
The Official Secrets Act was described as a piece of portmanteau legislation, covering everything from nuclear weapons to army boots.
At this point the portmanteaux would be donned, the port would be passed and the conversation would turn to slightly racy matters. Making Light: Open thread 136
The great champion of New York starchitecture happens to not like the term, which he calls a portmanteau for the “churlish.” The 100 Most Powerful People in New York Real Estate
Her bandboxes and portmanteaux are filled with her best clothes and all her jewels. The Virginians
His black comedy and his portmanteau romcom Trivial Matters are both biting, complex, visually stunning and highly idiosyncratic works., his latest project, looks like a deceptively bouncy horror comedy. New York Press
It was a serious consideration to me, who at that time was travelling through the West with a very small and very wayworn portmanteau, with Glasgow, Torquay, Boston, Rock Island, and I know not what besides upon it. The Englishwoman in America
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
A good game to play while watching portmanteau horror films is in spotting the famous actors, as well as those hardy character actors who crop up again and again.
Laforgue puns, makes up portmanteau words and re-applies tags from the natural language, the Christian liturgy and well-known works of literature.
Herrera's portmanteau style and ludic impulse constitute a form of visual jabberwocky, in which the familiar is confidently manipulated and destabilized.
Ladies 'Portmanteaus, DESPATCH-BOXES, WRITING-DESKS, DRESSING-CASES, and other travelling requisites, Gratis on application, or sent free by Post on receipt of Two Stamps. Notes and Queries, Number 236, May 6, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
There appeared before them, at this juncture, going in the same direction as themselves, a traveller on foot, who, with a portmanteau strapped to his back, leaned upon a stout stick as he walked, and read from a book which he held in his other hand. The Old Curiosity Shop
A similar memory even emerges of one of those old portmanteau horror films: the actor in a studio-built crypt, dressed in a monk's habit, listening to the ghoulish confessions of damned souls.
It appears that many of the commentors use “neoconservative” as somewhat of a portmanteau snarl-word: the issue at discussion is the extent the snarl aspect applies to or is caused by Jews, either as individuals or as a collective. The Volokh Conspiracy » Joe Klein Again
First you put out every conceivable article on the bed or floor, and then with an air of self-denial you say, "There, that will be enough;" and when you find an additional portmanteau lugged out, you ask with an air of astonishment Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada
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.
One that appears around here every year says something like 'Civil Service Motoring Association Promenade Concert and Spitfire flypast', which is almost a portmanteau sign in its own right. Village of Mystery
Nobody speaks in portmanteau sentences, so they are inherently pretentious and tend to sound pompous. 2009 February 24 « One-Minute Book Reviews
One evening the Chief stormed out of his bedroom to punish his servant for having forgotten his portmanteau at Umtata.
It was then that Mr. Sheeny detailed to me the particulars to which I have briefly adverted; and, informing me at the same time that he had a family in England who would feel obliged to me for his release, and that his most intimate friend the English ambassador would move heaven and earth to revenge his fall, he directed my attention to a portmanteau passably well filled, which he hoped would satisfy the cupidity of my troops. Burlesques
Luggage labels are those elegant, postcardlike stickers that first adorned the portmanteaus of the well traveled back in the late 19th century.
Sancho Panza thinks they had better bring the two portmanteaus back to Ireland as quietly as possible.
Yet it does have the feeling of an academic's large portmanteau, one quickly stuffed with odd books, papers and mismatched socks, rather cumbersome for lighter travel.
This portmanteau movie is a companion piece to the one that appeared here in September.
The proliferation of portmanteau disciplines - astrophysics, biochemistry and so on - suggests that this single-parent principle is under strain.
The portmanteau terms compossible and embrangle are similarly in the line of fire. Archive 2008-10-01
Scraps of his daily life lay scattered all over chairs and chests of drawers; his black portmanteau yawned wide-open like a coffin; his white linen was carefully laid on the top of his black suit, which showed slight traces of wear and tear at the knees and elbows. Married
The respectable creature, satisfied with his lot whatever it was, arranged our portmanteaux on the little carriage that was to take us into London, as if they were intended to defy the shocks of ages, and received my modestly proffered donation with perfect tranquillity. David Copperfield
Granger and Newbold caution against the exclusive reliance on the portmanteau tests for model adequacy.
The Official Secrets Act was described as a piece of portmanteau legislation, covering everything from nuclear weapons to army boots.
He stole round, and followed them at a safe distance, making Celia's hat, and the portmanteau perched on the shoulder of the porter behind her, his guides. The Damnation of Theron Ware
I simply don't believe (the term for this is "apatheism" - portmanteau of "apathy" and "atheism"), and it's none of my business whether or not you do. Diary of a Teenage Atheist
I rang the bell, and directed my servant to pack my portmanteau.
My portmanteau is cantilivered and needs bracing... Perez Hilton thanks Miss California for giving him the chance to make gay marriage a big news topic all last week.
It can also be called a frankenword (incidentally, this is another example of a portmanteau). Recent activities from Kevvy Kev at MySpace
It's a portmanteau from the OnStar service and the term arsehole, which is an English way of saying ... Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
What was presumably intended as a multi-layered portmanteau pic was thus boiled down into only two episodes.
Perhaps the Conservatives could issue a portmanteau apology for any other unscrupulous rightwing notions they may have nursed while Labour were lucky enough to be in charge? Will modern-day politicians never stop saying sorry? | Catherine Bennett
I had no idea where he had found the black portmanteau.
The same thing happened with Starbucks: They came out with 'Frappuccino,' and competitors clamored to use the same portmanteau of 'frappe' and GOOD
And then there came a chorus of bonsoirs from host, from hostess, and from the lad who now stood waiting with the Englishman's large portmanteau hitched up on his shoulder. The End of Her Honeymoon
Portmanteaus being then opened and clothes changed, Mr. Goodchild, through having no change of outer garments but broadcloth and velvet, suddenly became a magnificent portent in the Innkeeper's house, a shining frontispiece to the fashions for the month, and a frightful anomaly in the Cumberland village. Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices
The portmanteau is out of fashion but the portmanteau word is not.
True, but it's still a mindless portmanteau word, like 'mantyhose'. Times, Sunday Times
The whole house of Omer and Joram turned out to bid us good – bye; and there were so many seafaring volunteers in attendance on Steerforth, when our portmanteaux went to the coach, that if we had had the baggage of a regiment with us, we should hardly have wanted porters to carry it. David Copperfield
This portmanteau puddingstone of indigestible bureaucracy leaves enough room for the true major driving force of ZDNet UK Highlights
The gritty pulp atmosphere, expressed through the severely limited palette, as well as the Gilliamesque portmanteau technology, makes Detective Story one of the most visually arresting films I've seen this year.
After long cogitations, I resolved to steal up to the house, if possible, unperceived; have my horse turned over to the groom, and my portmanteau stowed out of sight, and then to walk boldly up to the door, with a visiting-card in one hand, and my credentials in the other, to be delivered to the servant for the lady to whom the letter was addressed. The Lieutenant and Commander
Perhaps" -- very dubitatively -- "a portmanteau or bag might help him out of his temporary difficulties. The British Barbarians
In opposition to society-level explanations, Sanderson introduces the portmanteau notion of individual-level ‘human needs.’
Yet today the portmanteau is probably the most fertile vehicle for neologisms. Times, Sunday Times
Michel had my portmanteau fastened on my horse, which had been brought out into the courtyard, and then he stood by me while I took my last breakfast in La Tournoire; and, in my haste to be off, I would have eaten little had he not pressed much upon me, reminding me how many leagues I would have to ride before meeting a good inn on the Paris road. An Enemy to the King
Lewis Carroll used the term portmanteau to describe a neologism with “two meanings packed up into one word”; his nonsense verse Jabberwocky (pictured) is full of them. June « 2008 « Sentence first
Such novels may be written in a seemingly unintelligible stream of consciousness style, contain puns, portmanteau words, even retreat into a private language.
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).
My fervant carried the portmanteau; but he had not gone the length of the ftreet, when the perfon who accompanied me called a Savoyard, and gave it to him, and fent the other away, that, the place might not be known where we were going. A Series of Letters, Discovering the Scheme Projected by France, in MDCCLIX, for an Intended ...
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.
There is a conscious, even contrived lack of consequence to this Argentinian portmanteau movie using non-professionals, about three individuals making their vulnerable way across Patagonia.
Being buttoned up in a tightish blue surtout, with a buff waistcoat and gray trousers, he had something of a military air, but he announced himself at the Crozier (the orthodox hotel, where he put up with a portmanteau) as an idle dog who lived upon his means; and he farther announced that he had a mind to take The Mystery of Edwin Drood
The documents relating thereto were in a secret drawer in a portmanteau, which had been stolen, and it was to ransom it that the writer asked for a few pounds.
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.
Herrera's portmanteau style and ludic impulse constitute a form of visual jabberwocky, in which the familiar is confidently manipulated and destabilized.
And they would not allow their daughter June-June to wear such dresses and carry a portmanteau with so many dents for long. GWENDOLEN
Portmanteaus, with every modern convenience, were ordered; an experienced courier, who could talk all languages and cook French dishes if required, was invited to name his terms. Kenelm Chillingly — Volume 01
Say “computer lingo” to most people, and they’ll rattle off their rudimentary knowledge of the meaning of byte, hacker and cybersex gritch the last marries digiporn to the portmanteau of grouch and glitch, producing a phrase meaning “hacker’s complaint about the encryption of dirty pictures”. No Uncertain Terms
Hampson has an attractive stage presence, but I sometimes think that he comes complete with a rather portmanteau interpretation.
Castle Crashers is a portmanteau scroller, taking ideas from across the gamut of the genre and repackaging them with first-class production values. Edge Online - Interactive Entertainment Today
Another Italian word, imbroglio, “a confused entanglement,” was used by editors of The New Republic in a portmanteau coinage. No Uncertain Terms
This term is much less comprehensible to us now that the literal sense of portmanteau has gone out of use.
“Well, I am willing to venture the wine; or, I will bet you ten pieces to five, that I carry your portmanteau on my croupe, and out-trot you into the bargain.” Rob Roy
Adam emerged from his bedroom carrying his portmanteau, which he placed on the floor close to the door.
And they would not allow their daughter June-June to wear such dresses and carry a portmanteau with so many dents for long. GWENDOLEN
Undoubtedly his most distinguishing artistic trait, Okazaki's graphic style is a peculiar syncretism of cultural and stylistic elements from the East and West that favors funky portmanteaus like a hip hoppish samurai, cybernetic villains decked out in Japanese accoutrement, a seasonal matsuri float carrying a DJ atop a massive PA. Anime Nano!
A jingle is a square box of painted canvas with no back to it, because, as was luminously explained to me, you must have some way to get into it, and I had to sit sideways in it, with my portmanteau bucking like a three-year-old on the seat opposite to me. All on the Irish Shore Irish Sketches
The four short interludes don't do much except show Johnson's talent for the portmanteau word.
It's enough of a phenomenon to have been given its own portmanteau label: kidult. Times, Sunday Times
The portmanteau terms compossible and embrangle are similarly in the line of fire. Archive 2008-10-01
He put his clothes in the portmanteau anyhow and crushed them firmly down. Happy Pollyooly The Rich Little Poor Girl
Fancy swung the portmanteau off the bed; she wouldn't think about Aurora now. PAINT THE WIND
Side note: Other Portmanteaus the press could have gone with ... Danielle Celena Belton: Brangelina, Meet O'Biden!
I have just invented a portmanteau word - Crumpety - Crotchety and Grumpy.
The ergonomist must understand all of the demands being made on the person, and the likely effects of any changes to these - the techniques which enable him to do this come under the portmanteau label of ‘job and task analysis’.
Portmanteaus not above 30 kilo., or 68⅘ lbs., 25 c. each. The South of France—East Half
Next thing geography will be corrected by "ed.", and language and portmanteaux, too, all fixed, pristine and perfect by "ed. It's called "zeitgeist," have you heard of it?
The tradesman alighting to untruss a point, Tom leaped at once into his saddle, and galloped off both with his horse and portmanteau. Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences
This refers to an episode that took place during the Parnell Commission when the politician claimed that mice got into his portmanteau and devoured some important documents.
Fancy swung the portmanteau off the bed; she wouldn't think about Aurora now. PAINT THE WIND
The handbook is a portmanteau category that covers the contemporary publications of sporting bodies, professional and trade associations, churches, universities, etc.
I'd experience a form of parental sorrow that should be endowed with a German portmanteau word, say, Mutterkinderwinterfahrenschade.
Portmanteau is itself a portmanteau word formed from the French words porter (“to carry”) and manteau (“cloak”). June « 2008 « Sentence first
The term Dixiecrat is a portmanteau of Dixie, referring to the Southern United States, and Democrat, referring to the United States Democratic Party. Think Progress » POLL: Majority Of Americans Reject Right Wing’s Anti-Gay Smears In Foley Scandal
To narrow this portmanteau question down to discussion size, I will focus here on some of the issues television opens up concerning the aesthetics of a specific genre that has its roots firmly in the movies.
This film is only one of several portmanteau documentaries from post-war France; each, in turn, describes an ecology premised on expedient, routine slaughter.
`brunch' is a well-known portmanteau
Shot on digital video, this juxtaposes the lives of three women in a portmanteau movie which arguably goes about its business with less fuss than The Hours.
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.
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).
One Friday afternoon, without any warning at all, Lydie came home to find Adele sitting on her front porch with two portmanteaus on either side.
Then she wondered what would happen to their portmanteau.
The best portmanteaux are those that reflect a new way of thinking and behaving. Times, Sunday Times
He ran up the ladder, and soon my portmanteau blackened the hatchway, and a great straining and squeezing began. The Riddle of the Sands

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