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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The grammar of German means that it is a language in many ways uniquely suited to combining existing words to make longer but highly specific portmanteaus.
From Slate ● Feb. 25, 2025
The goofiest of these portmanteaus, and one of the more enduring, involved the carryall.
From New York Times ● Nov. 8, 2021
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
Fusion words, or as Lewis Carroll called them, portmanteaus, are words that squish together portions of two separate words to create a single word with a new, combined meaning.
From Time ● Apr. 24, 2014
In early morning a cab took the four portmanteaus to Euston Station, and he caught the train for Liverpool.
From '?19,000' by Burford Delannoy
