ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PORTMANTEAU
From French: cloak carrier, from porter to carry + manteau cloak, mantle.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PORTMANTEAU»
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portmanteau in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
portmanteau and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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A Guide for Using The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963 in the ...
Creating. Portmanteau. Words. Skillful authors sometimes make new words when
they feel there is no appropriate word in our language for what they want to say.
These words are called portmanteau words. Portmanteau means combining ...
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Portmanteau dictionary: blend words in the English language, ...
"Portmanteau" (a suitcase with equal halves) means two words packed together to convey meanings more precisely, colorfully, vibrantly or whimsically.
The very fact that there is definite room for improvement in the Portmanteau
presentations, leads one to feel, knowing the record of the company, that these
improvements will be made. To return for a moment to an earlier phase of our ...
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Portmanteau Adaptations
The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com).
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Corpus-based Research Into Language: In Honour of Jan Aarts
4.2.4 Use of portmanteau tags A portmanteau tag7 (see Francis, 1980) is a word-
label which consists of two (or in principle more) alternative grammatical tags
linked by an 'OR' operator. In our C5 tag representation, the 'OR' is symbolized by
...
Nelleke Oostdijk, Pieter de Haan, 1994
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Readings in Linguistics I & II
of 'morph' to cover elements of other than overt phonemic content. If this is
considered desirable, then in the notion of portmanteau we have at least
achieved a more rigorous way of extending the coverage of the term 'morph' in
such a manner ...
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Portmanteau A-Z: An Alphabet of
Portmanteau Words
In this charming little book, Rebecca May presents an A–Z of portmanteau words – some new, some absurd, some widely used – and provides a witty definition and appealing illustration for each word, together with its derivation.
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An Anatomy of Literary Nonsense:
2.3.4.2 The Portmanteau Another common device in nonsense texts is the "
portmanteau word", a phrase coined by Carroll, or rather by Humpty Dumpty in
TLG.26 Reichert (1974: 184) calls this device the quintessence of nonsense.
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Language History: An Introduction
PORTMANTEAU WORDS 52. Telescoping or blending results in what are
commonly known as portmanteau words: two words of similar or merely
associated meaning are merged into a new word. Many portmanteaus are slips
of the tongue, ...
contraction within a single series (y'reince) is not a portmanteau word. A further
example may be found in the famous "Jabberwocky," where a great number of
words sketch out a fantastic zoology but do not necessarily form portmanteau ...
Gilles Deleuze, Constantin V. Boundas, 1990
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PORTMANTEAU»
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portmanteau is used in the context of the following news items.
'Interstellar Hackathon' to Chart Our Path to the Stars
"Hackathon," a portmanteau of "marathon" and "hacking," conjures a vision of faceless cyberpunks, breaching a secure system with the sinister ... «Discovery News, Jul 15»
Hometown blues by Little Lake
The band's name was a portmanteau of Jackson Creek, flowing through downtown Peterborough and into Little Lake, and the Mississippi Delta ... «kawarthaNOW.com, Jul 15»
New company plans to revolutionize genomic medicine with deep …
The name is a portmanteau of "splicing index," which basically means that Spidex is a database containing information about how lots and lots ... «Gizmag, Jul 15»
Kendall Kardashian, Cara Delevingne Offered Reality Show — Report
Life & Style is saying that the stylish portmanteau's duo, Keeping Up With the Kardashians star Kendall Jenner and her best friend, fellow model ... «Wetpaint, Jul 15»
ISI, ISIS in talks to form new Islamic super-state, to be named …
PafghIStan, a portmanteau of Pakistan, Afghanistan and IS is the name preferred by the ISI, while ISIS is said to prefer ISISAP. As per the ... «Firstpost, Jul 15»
This Technique Will Make All Your Selfies Supersexy
Squinching is a portmanteau of squinting and pinching, which is what you should apparently be doing with your eyes in every photo. According ... «POPSUGAR, Jul 15»
Are Countries Obligated to Fend Off Climate Change?
Aware of that gap, citizens have tried to litigate political leaders into action, but prior to the Urgenda (a portmanteau of “urgent agenda”) case ... «Climate Central, Jul 15»
Delaware's everyday treasure hunters
The word “geocache” is a portmanteau, combining “geography” and “cache,” i.e., a place to store supplies. It has come to mean a real-world ... «Milford Beacon, Jul 15»
The 35 best Siri answers on the Apple Watch
Nor is it much use when it's asked which of the watch faces is it's favourite. Why it chose to trot out Tyra Banks' clumsy portmanteau 'smizing' ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
Cosplay Has A World Cup And It's As Amazing As You'd Expect
Cosplay is a portmanteau of “costume” and “play,” indicating both the appearance and performance aspects of the craft. At the World Cosplay ... «Forbes, Jul 15»
