Look up: Portmanteau

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   portmanteau
   [n] - a large travelling bag made of stiff leather
   Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio
   
   
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   Portmanteau
   a word made up from blending two others: swurse = swear + curse; picture + dictionary = pictionary; smoke + fog = smog; breakfast + lunch = brunch.
   Found on http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/primary
   
   
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   portmanteau
   a single morph which stands for two morphemes Category: Language and literature
   Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition
   
   
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   Portmanteau
   Port·man'teau noun ; plural Portmanteaus . [ French porte-manteau ; porter to carry + manteau a cloak, mantle. See Port to carry, and Mantle .] A bag or case, usually of leather, for carrying wearing apparel, etc., on journeys. Thackeray.
   Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/131
   
   
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   portmanteau
   Gladstone noun a large travelling bag made of stiff leather
   Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?
   
   
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   Portmanteau
   A `portmanteau` , plural `portmanteaux`, is a word or morpheme that fuses two or more words or word parts 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` and `fork`, `animatronics` from `animated` and `electronics`, `guesstimate` from `guess` and `estimate`, `wikipedia` from `wiki` and `encyclopedia`, or `ginormous`...
   Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portmanteau
   
   
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   Portmanteau
   • (n.) A bag or case, usually of leather, for carrying wearing apparel, etc., on journeys.
   Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning
   
   
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   portmanteau
   portmanteau 1. A case or bag for carrying clothing and other necessaries when traveling; originally of a form suitable for carrying on horseback; now applied to an oblong stiff leather case, which opens like a book, with hinges in the middle of the back. 2. In the sense of that into which things are packed together; originally applied by Lewis Carroll to a f...
   Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/inf
   
   
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   portmanteau
   Lewis Carroll's phrase for a neologism created by combining two existing words. His 'Jabberwocky,' for example, fuses 'lithe' and a term like 'slight' or 'slimy' to produce 'slithy' in the line ''Twas brillig, and the slithy toves.'
   Found on http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/display_r