Define the word portmanteau word"portmanteau word" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
portmanteau word \port*man"teau word`\, n. [See portmanteau.]
A word formed by joining two others; -- as, smog is formed
from smoke and fog.
[Wordnet 1.6]
"portmanteau word" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"
portmanteau word
n : a new word formed by joining two others and combining their
meanings; "`smog' is a blend of `smoke' and `fog'";
"`motel' is a portmanteau word made by combining `motor'
and `hotel'"; "`brunch' is a well-known portmanteau"
[syn: blend, portmanteau]
"portmanteau word" moby-thes "Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0"
22 Moby Thesaurus words for "portmanteau word":
ambiguity, amphibology, blend, contamination, counterword,
double entendre, equivocal, equivocality, equivocation, equivoque,
hybrid, hybrid word, hybridism, macaronic, macaronicism,
polysemant, portmanteau, portmantologism, pun,
squinting construction, telescope word, weasel word
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