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| rdfs:comment | - The result of when two words (who love each other very much) do the special hug that makes the stork come. The word is pronounced "poor man two," or, poor man's two. Meaning, two (or more in some cases) words were squishified to form one word, because a poor man cannot afford to use as many letters as a rich man, therefore a poor man must be more frugal with their letter usage than a rich man.
- A portmanteau (Image:Speakerlink.svg/pɔrtˈmæntoʊ/; plural portmanteaux or portmanteaus) or portmanteau word is a combination of two (or more) words or morphemes into one new word. A portmanteau word typically combines both sounds and meanings, as in smog, coined by blending smoke and fog. More generally, it may refer to any term or phrase that combines two or more meanings. In linguistics, a portmanteau is defined as a single morph which represents two or more morphemes.
- "Portmanteau" is currently a novella being written by Arithmancy Wiz.
- A portmanteau (pronounced \pȯrt-ˈman-(ˌ)tō\) is 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". The word itself is an obsolete term for a kind of suitcase that opens into two hinged compartments. It was first used to describe blends of words by Lewis Carroll in Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, when Humpty Dumpty explains to Alice the word "slithy" from the poem Jabberwocky: Examples of Portmanteau include:
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| abstract | - The result of when two words (who love each other very much) do the special hug that makes the stork come. The word is pronounced "poor man two," or, poor man's two. Meaning, two (or more in some cases) words were squishified to form one word, because a poor man cannot afford to use as many letters as a rich man, therefore a poor man must be more frugal with their letter usage than a rich man.
- A portmanteau (Image:Speakerlink.svg/pɔrtˈmæntoʊ/; plural portmanteaux or portmanteaus) or portmanteau word is a combination of two (or more) words or morphemes into one new word. A portmanteau word typically combines both sounds and meanings, as in smog, coined by blending smoke and fog. More generally, it may refer to any term or phrase that combines two or more meanings. In linguistics, a portmanteau is defined as a single morph which represents two or more morphemes.
- "Portmanteau" is currently a novella being written by Arithmancy Wiz.
- A portmanteau (pronounced \pȯrt-ˈman-(ˌ)tō\) is 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". The word itself is an obsolete term for a kind of suitcase that opens into two hinged compartments. It was first used to describe blends of words by Lewis Carroll in Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, when Humpty Dumpty explains to Alice the word "slithy" from the poem Jabberwocky: Before first-letter acronyms were standard, this was thought to be just fantastic by up-and-coming political movements in the '30s, which is why we have the words StuKa, NaZi, GeStaPo, StaSi, GULag, ComIntern and SovNarKom, which is why nobody uses them anymore (in Russia, some of these portmanteau acronyms survive). Consequently, fictional totalitarian governments often use them to play on these connotations. In countries that don't use alphabets, like Japan, this is still the standard, which is why Portmanteau Series Nickname is full of anime show examples. Incidentally, the original French word "portemanteau" is a portmanteau. "Porte" means carries and "manteau" means coat, so a portemanteau is something that carries your coat. In modern French the word means coat hanger instead of a type of suitcase. See also Portmanteau Couple Name, Portmantitle, Portmanteau Series Nickname, Tropemanteau, and We Will Use Wiki Words in the Future. Examples of Portmanteau include:
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