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22Jan/071

Word of the day: portmanteau

I have a feeling most people know this one, but it was new for me:

portmanteau - A word formed by merging the sounds and meanings of two different words, as chortle, from chuckle and snort (e.g. cephalopodufascist)

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  1. You’re obviously not a ‘Wikipedian’ (have I just coined that?), sir/madam.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia


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