portmanteau word

a word arbitrarily formed of two distinct words

chortle, from chuckle and snort; cyclotron, from cycle and electron

by Jessica September 11, 2003

Internal Portmanteau

Causing a word to become shorter by joining the ends at a common letter. Can be done more than once in long words, or phrases.

IP = Internal Portmanteau

Examples of Internal Portmanteau:

Television --> Tevion (2 IP's) (pronounced "teh-vyun")

Mathematician --> Matician (1 IP) (pronounced "ma-tish-un")

Fabulous! --> Fabus! (1 IP) (pronounced "fab-ous")

by JWBPhayz June 4, 2009

portmanteau purloin

when the government makes you think through esp that someone knows your whereabouts and is talking about you which distracts you from your daily tasks.

The portmanteau purloin put the majority of Americans living paycheck to paycheck because they couldn't pay attention.

by Coop Dupe January 8, 2020