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A portmanteau word is a type of compound word in which some sounds (phonemes) are blended rather than combined whole. For example, the words smoke + fog are combined to create the word smog.
The term "portmanteau word" was coined by Lewis Carroll in "Through the Looking Glass" (1871), when Humpty Dumpty explained to Alice, "You see it's like a portmanteau — there are two meanings packed up into one word." A portmanteau is a suitcase that has two distinct sections.
Table of Portmanteau Words
| breakfast | lunch | brunch |
| car | hijack | carjack |
| cheese | hamburger | cheeseburger |
| chocolate | alcoholic | chocoholic |
| chuckle | snort | chortle |
| cybernetic | organism | cyborg |
| education | entertainment | edutainment |
| electric | execute | electrocute |
| fantastic | fabulous | fantabulous |
| friend | enemy | frenemy |
| Senator Gerry | salamander | gerrymander |
| guess | estimate | guesstimate |
| informational | commercial | infomercial |
| jazz | exercise | jazzercise |
| lion | tiger | liger |
| mock | documentary | mockumentary |
| motor | pedal | moped |
| motor | hotel | motel |
| news | broadcast | newscase |
| parachute | trooper | paratrooper |
| skirt | shorts | skort |
| smoke | fog | smog |
| snide | remark | snark |
| spoon | fork | spork |
| television | evangelist | televangelist |
| vital | amine | vitamin |
| wavy | curly | wurly |
| web | log | blog |
Worksheet:
 Make Portmanteau Words Printable Worksheet Put two words together and blend or omit a few sounds to make portmanteu words. Or go to the answers. Or go to a pdf of the worksheet and answers (subscribers only). |
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