Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name given by Lewis Carroll (C. L. Dodgson), in “Through the Looking-glass,” to words formed by him on the composite system.
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- adjective Attributive form of
portmanteau word , noun.
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Examples
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Sometimes "bazing" was the order, a portmanteau-word describing a morning spent in grazing the horses, and bathing ourselves.
In the Ranks of the C.I.V. Erskine Childers 1896
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Lewis Carroll Dodgson, Waywode of Wonderland, calls a "portmanteau-word,"
The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio 1344
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