Amuse Yourself… Fuse a Word
While listening to the radio on my morning commute to work last week, the DJ was talking of a new word that had been added to the dictionary, HANGRY… his description of this word was, this is what you are when your lack of food causes you to be angry. Hangry = hungry + angry
After some research, I found these words are known as Portmanteau.
Wikipedia gives a very in-depth definition of the word but it basically comes down to simply – “A portmanteau word fuses both the sounds and the meanings of its components, as in smog, coined by blending smoke and fog”
I thought, geeze what other such unusual and humorous words can be out there that have been fused in such a way.
Care to contribute some words?…
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Here are a few words to amuse you:
Frankenfood (Frankenstein/food): genetically modified food
Screenager (screen/teenager): the typical teen who indulges excessively in screen entertainment
glamping (glamour/camping): luxury camping.
manwich (man/sandwich): A sandwich made from any of the ingredients that are available in the fridge.
turducken (turkey/duck/chicken): A dish consisting of a de-boned chicken stuffed into a de-boned duck, which itself is stuffed into a de-boned turkey.
Wallyball (Wall + volleyball): solitaire volleyball.
Sexcapade (sex + escapade)
Beefalo (beef + buffalo)
spork (spook/fork)
Nork (knife/fork)
Moobs= man boobs……
Shitousy= Sh*tty + Lousy.. as in I’m having a Shitousy day!
Fantastamous = Fantastic + wonderful+fabulous.
Chillax……relaxing and chilling out!!
Tweenager, that age between tweeny and teen.
Flove , between fantasy and love
Sassy, I like this blog and I am glad to be informed about this “portmanteau”.
Nice blog Sassy,I can`t think of any “portmanteauwords”,think I`ll just keep calling a spade a spade.
Avachat…..Someone who talks to everyone.
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