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portmanteau-word

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A name given by Lewis Carroll (C. L. Dodgson), in “Through the Looking-glass,” to words formed by him on the composite system.

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  • adjective Attributive form of portmanteau word, noun.

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Examples

  • Sometimes "bazing" was the order, a portmanteau-word describing a morning spent in grazing the horses, and bathing ourselves.

    In the Ranks of the C.I.V. Erskine Childers 1896

  • Lewis Carroll Dodgson, Waywode of Wonderland, calls a "portmanteau-word,"

    The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio 1344

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