Portmanteaus
A fun find. While randomly sufing the wiktionary, I came across the pormanteaus page. A portmanteaus is defined as "A word formed which combines the meaning of two words (or, rarely, more than two words) by combining the words, usually, but not always, by adjoining the first part of one word and the last part of the other, the adjoining parts often having a common vowel."
My favorites thus far are:
Dykon
Tangelo
& smaze.
I intend to use them in my writing very soon.
~GoGo
My favorites thus far are:
Dykon
Tangelo
& smaze.
I intend to use them in my writing very soon.
~GoGo
Labels: humor
1 Comments:
I had never heard Dykon before. I was thinking daikon - the large, white, Japanese radish? Now I have a weird image of a shapely, large, white, Japanese radish... sigh.
cool list of words there, though, I'm still working my way through them.
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