A portmanteau (IPA pronunciation: [pɔːtˈmæntəʊ]) is a word or morpheme which fuses two or more words or parts of words to give a combined or loaded meaning. A folk usage of portmanteau refers to a word formed by combining both sounds and meanings from two or more words (e.g., spork from spoon/fork, "animatronics" from "animation", "electronics", "Beatlemania", Jamiroquai, the English band formed from "jam", and "Iroquois", or "blaxploitation" from "black" and "exploitation"). Typically, portmanteaux are nonce words or neologisms. One of the most well-known examples is cyborg, a term which is commonly used to refer to a cybernetic organism.
― remy bean, Thursday, 21 June 2007 04:08 (eighteen years ago)
satelliterate antiquarium germaniums
― remy bean, Thursday, 21 June 2007 04:09 (eighteen years ago)
sievening panspermine candelaborate
syllogisthmus penumbrage nephalimpulse
― remy bean, Thursday, 21 June 2007 04:10 (eighteen years ago)
TungkuSKA Querellaphant Mastadon Juan
― remy bean, Thursday, 21 June 2007 04:12 (eighteen years ago)
pluralgae twittermite pangolinotype
― remy bean, Thursday, 21 June 2007 04:13 (eighteen years ago)
glimmurder glitteration glistenographer
― remy bean, Thursday, 21 June 2007 04:14 (eighteen years ago)
pheromonetary exchangling
― elmo argonaut, Thursday, 21 June 2007 05:30 (eighteen years ago)
http://www.synrise.de/amazona/images/cs80_06.jpg
― S-, Thursday, 21 June 2007 07:02 (eighteen years ago)
Jamiroquai, the English band formed from "jam", and "Iroquois"
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― and what, Thursday, 21 June 2007 15:05 (eighteen years ago)
I am really disappointed I haven't tagged anything with "portmanteau"
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Thursday, 21 June 2007 16:34 (eighteen years ago)
folksonomy yo
one of my ilx names was "natalie portmanteau"
― get bent, Thursday, 21 June 2007 19:38 (eighteen years ago)