portmanteau word

短语

n. 紧缩词, 混合词

发音

其它

词形变化

portmanteau words 复数 portmanteau words

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A word which combines the meaning of two words (or, rarely, more than two words), formed by combining the words, usually, but not always, by adjoining the first part of one word and the last part of the other, the adjoining parts often having a common vowel.

    混成词

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词汇关系

名词

同义词 2

blend portmanteau

上位词 3

neologism coinage neology

词源

First used by Lewis Carroll in 1871, based on the concept of two words packed together, like a portmanteau (“a travelling case having two halves joined by a hinge”).

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