Look up: portmanteau

1. portmanteau
   [n] - a large travelling bag made of stiff leather
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2. 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
   
   
3. portmanteau
   a single morph which stands for two morphemes Category: Language and literature
   Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition
   
   
4. 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
   
   
5. portmanteau
   Gladstone noun a large travelling bag made of stiff leather
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6. Portmanteau
   • (n.) A bag or case, usually of leather, for carrying wearing apparel, etc., on journeys.
   Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning
   
   
7. 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...
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8. 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.'
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9. Portmanteau
   A portmanteau is a type of suitcase with a rigid handle.
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10. portmanteau
    large leather suitcase that opened into two compartments. Dickens reported in American Notes that his cabin aboard ship was so small that his portmanteau could "no more be got in at the door, not to say stowed away, than a giraffe could be forced into a flowerpot."
    Found on http://charlesdickenspage.com/glossary.h
    
    
11. Portmanteau
    (disambiguation) A ` portmanteau` (from French porter "to carry" and manteau "a type of coat") was a type of suitcase (see, for example Gladstone bag) where two (or more) somewhat independent sections could be put together to make one piece of luggage.. Since...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portmanteau
    
    
12. Portmanteau
    A `portmanteau` (, plural: portmanteaus or portmanteaux) or `portmanteau word` is a blend of two (or more) words or accessdate=2011-02-23-->--> In linguistics, a portmanteau is defined as a single morph which represents two or more morphemes.<ref name="What is a portmanteau mor...
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