Portmanteau
Posted by
gwyneth
on Tuesday, July 11, 2006
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Word of the Day: Portmanteau
The word was coined by Lewis Carroll. A portmanteau word is a word that fuses two function words.
Example:
breakfast + lunch = brunch.
smoke + fog = smog. This is the most common
California + fornication = Californication
Well!!! Interesting Eh??
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