Mother: You better pick up that candy wrapper!
Son: Why?
Mother: If you don't, this will go on your permanent record, and you will never get into college!
Son: Why?
Mother: If you don't, this will go on your permanent record, and you will never get into college!
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Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky is loaded with portmanteau words.
Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky is loaded with portmanteau words.
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by Michael Kerr May 24, 2005
Get the Portmania mug.1. A combination of the words permanent and temporary.
2. Used when someone presents something as permanent when it is actually temporary and/or vice versa. This may be done purposefully or in error.
2. Used when someone presents something as permanent when it is actually temporary and/or vice versa. This may be done purposefully or in error.
a.
BOSS: This will be your office while you work here.
YOU: This windowed cornered office is the business.
COWORKER/JERK: Don't get too comfy. No one has stayed in this office too long. It is totally permanary.
b. Just because he/she says "We are going to be together for ever..." doesn't mean that the relationship will avoid permanarity.
BOSS: This will be your office while you work here.
YOU: This windowed cornered office is the business.
COWORKER/JERK: Don't get too comfy. No one has stayed in this office too long. It is totally permanary.
b. Just because he/she says "We are going to be together for ever..." doesn't mean that the relationship will avoid permanarity.
by Grymm Deth February 2, 2010
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The word portmanthusiast is a portmanteau
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Matt would have had his computer repaired at Best Buy, but pornanoia kept from handing it over lest they stumble across his collection of lesbian videos.
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