portmanteau
noun
a case or bag to carry clothing in while traveling, especially a leather trunk or suitcase that opens into two halves.
portmanteaus
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pluralof portmanteau.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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But in this landscape where we are weary of all these turduckened portmanteaus, the Double Down just doesn’t pack the same culinary gut punch that it once did.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 7, 2023
They experiment with Morse code, and coin portmanteaus to save on their daily word quota.
From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2023
I happen to be a sucker for groany portmanteaus.
From Slate ● Feb. 9, 2022
In that first iteration, the anonymous writer explained “hatriot” in almost bemused terms as just one then recent example of portmanteaus like “Republocrat”.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 7, 2019
Now it was Hesse Cassel would pry into our portmanteaus; now it was Bavaria wanted to peep at our passports.
From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I by Charles James Lever
