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

Portmanteaupreneur

A derrogative portmanteau of the words portmanteau and entrepreneur, that refers to a relatively recent trend in certain online communities (usually in the online marketing & life coaching niches) of people trying to oversell their skills & services by using a whole slew of different portmanteaus involving the word "entrepreneur" while describing themselves.

Did you read her bio? It wrote: "I'm a 29 year old woman from Georgia helping other femmepreneurs like me to 10x their passive income careers!"

Also, the author of the "portmanteaupreneur" entry on UD is such a portmanteaupreneur! (meta)

by Tlukinic July 23, 2020

portmanteau

a cliche and uncreative technique to form new words - almost anyone who can speak a language can fabricate words by butchering two perfectly good words and using cheap glue to form one ugly word

Awful portmanteau words include "brangelina", "craptacular", "adorkable" and "soquid".

by Tojonto June 19, 2006

Portmanterrific

Portmanterrific is an adjective that refers to a portmanteu that is deemed particularly extraordinary. (A portmanteu is a linguistic blend of two words that defines something as being the sum of two distinct objects or ideas, i.e. a spork is one part spoon, one part fork.) A portmanterrific portmanteau typically refers to a novel portmanteau that has only recently been introduced into the cultural lexicon. Portmanteaus like "Bennifer" and "Wikipedia," although useful, are too commonplace to earn the distinction of being portmanterrific.

Tramplifying my interview outfit was a portmanterrific call.

Chillaxing is not portmanterrific.

The most portmanterrific portmanteaus likely haven't even been listed on urbandictionary.com

by ilikelotsastuff July 24, 2009

pornantine

Locking yourself away in part of your house where no one can possibly catch you looking at porn.

I am so pissed, I walked in from grocery shopping and found Jim sitting on the couch looking at hardcore donkey porn on his iPad. He should have been pornantined in the study where no one would seen how disgusting he is!

by H. Bobs November 16, 2012

portmanteau

"'A large leather suitcase.' from French, port- (carry) and manteau (cloak)." Source: Dictionary.com(www.dictionary.com), retrieved 11/19/05.

"...sent her things on ahead via two steamer trunks, a hatbox, and an enormous portmanteau, covered in crocodile"

by tazio December 26, 2005