Portmanteau word

Meaning

Noun

●

In Linguistics:

A

which

the

of two

(or,

, more than two

),

by

the

, usually, but not always, by

the first part of one

and the last part of the other, the

often having a common vowel.

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Synonyms

Portmantologism

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