portmanteau word
Meaning
A word which combines the meaning of two words (or, rarely, more than two words), formed by combining the words, usually, but not always, by adjoining the first part of one word and the last part of the other, the adjoining parts often having a common vowel.
Synonyms
Translations
mot-valise
mengwoord
palavra entrecruzada
mot creuat paraula composta
كلمَة منحوتَة من كلمتين
zusammengesetztes Wort Tok Pisin Amalgamierung Pidgin-Sprachen PidginspracheEtymology
First used by Lewis Carroll in 1871, based on the concept of two words packed together, like a portmanteau (“a travelling case having two halves joined by a hinge”).
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