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blend  portmanteau word  portmanteau  blend word  Frankenword
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A new word formed by joining two others and combining their meanings WordNet 3.0
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A new word formed by joining two others and combining their meanings WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
A portmanteau word, or portmanteau is a blend of words in which parts of multiple words are combined into a new word, as in smog, coined by blending smoke and fog, or motel, from motor and hotel. Wikipedia
In linguistics, a blend—sometimes known, perhaps more narrowly, as a blend word, lexical blend, portmanteau, or portmanteau word—is a word formed, usually intentionally, by combining the sounds and meanings of two or more words. Wikipedia
A word which fuses two or more function words Wikipedia Disambiguation
Word or morpheme whose form and meaning are derived from a blending of two or more distinct forms, e.g., smog from smoke and fog. Wikipedia Disambiguation
A word formed from parts of other words Wikipedia Disambiguation
Word formed from parts of two or more other words Wikidata
Word blending the sounds and combining the meanings of two or more others Wikidata
A mixture of two or more things. OmegaWiki
A blend of two meanings packed up into one word. OmegaWiki
A word formed by combining two other words; a grammatical contamination, portmanteau word. Wiktionary
A portmanteau word. Wiktionary
A word which combines the meaning of two words (or, rarely, more than two words), formed 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; for example, smog, formed from smoke and fog. Wiktionary
Word which combines the meaning of two words. Wiktionary (translation)
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`smog' is a blend of `smoke' and `fog' WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
`motel' is a portmanteau word made by combining `motor' and `hotel' WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
`brunch' is a well-known portmanteau WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
The word brunch is a blend of the words breakfast and lunch. Wiktionary
IS A
neologism
blend
derivation
word
word play
HAS KIND
blend
CS
Frazeologická kontaminace
phubbing
Oxbridge
stagflation
+3 relations
HAS INSTANCE
cyborg
centrex
Oxbridge
simulcast
Chrismukkah
+50 relations
MEMBER OF USAGE DOMAIN
brunch
motel
shopaholic
smog
workaholic
+1 relations
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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blend, portmanteau word, portmanteau
Wikipedia
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blend word, portmanteau
Wikidata
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blend word, portmanteau
Wiktionary
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blend, portmanteau, portmanteau word
OmegaWiki
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blend, portmanteau
Wikipedia Redirections
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Billary, blend (linguistics), Blending (linguistics), Blendword, frankenword, Frankenword, Grammatical blend, Hybrid pun, Linguistic blend, List of hybrid word puns used in pop culture, List of portmanteaus used in pop culture, Mashup (combination word), Mot-valise, Name-mashing, Name-meshing, Portemanteau, Portmandeau, portmandeau, portmanteau, Portmanteau (word), Portmanteau word, portmanteau word, Portmanteauitaric, Portmanteaus, portmanteaus, portmanteaux, Portmanteaux, Portmanteu, Portmantuae, Portmantuea, Portmonteau, Wombination
Wikidata Alias
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contamination, portmanteau word

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