Word of the Day: Portmanteau
While looking up the wiki-definition of Bookmarklet I came across this fun-to-pronounce one.
from Wikipedia:
A portmanteau is used broadly to mean a blend of two (or more) words.
The usage of the word ‘portmanteau’ in this sense first appeared in Lewis Carroll’s book Through the Looking-Glass (1871), in which Humpty Dumpty explains to Alice the coinage of the unusual words in Jabberwocky:
- ‘slithy’ means ‘lithe and slimy’… You see it’s like a portmanteau—there are two meanings packed up into one word”
- ‘Mimsy’ is ‘flimsy and miserable’ (there’s another portmanteau … for you)”.
