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Significats de portmanteau word en anglès

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paraula composta

A new word formed by joining two others and combining their meanings.

        paraula composta
        Ús de portmanteau word en anglès
        1
        There was much difficulty in finding a portmanteau word that would convey vegetables, eggs, and milk.
        Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman
        2
        Farawayan is a wonderful portmanteau word created by O'Kelly to describe someone who is very far away and unwelcome.
        The Irish Times
        3
        But at some stage in the future we are going to have to coin a portmanteau word to capture it.
        The Irish Times
        4
        Every question by discussants on radio and TV when replied to in the affirmative is answered by the portmanteau word "absolutely".
        The Irish Times
        5
        This of course is the ancient trinity, the sacred "MA-AB-BEN", written as a " portmanteau word", "MABEN", the Mother-Father-Son trinity of the ancients, or Isis-Osiris-Horus.
        The Meaning of Witchcraft
        6
        He showed a strange inclination to "mulp"- aportmanteauword that Jumbo coined out of "mope" and "sulk."
        The Dozen from Lakerim
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