A portmanteau is a 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.
In linguistics, a blend—also known as a blend word, lexical blend, or portmanteau—is a word formed, usually intentionally, by combining the sounds and meanings ...
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This is a selection of portmanteau words. Wiktionary has a category on English blends. Contents. 1 Animals. 1.1 Hybrids. 1.1.1 Cats. 1.2 Mixed breeds.
A portmanteau word is made of other words, or parts of words. It comes from putting two (or more) other words together, like motel, from motor and hotel.