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

natalie portman

Beautiful and smart. Just perfect.

She is the only girl I would like to date.

by mick March 14, 2005

Portmangler

One who coins painful and awkward portmanteaux.

"Check it out, Alice, I invented a cross between a spoon and a fork - I call it a fspoo-ork'n."

"Dang, Bob, you are such a gosh darned portmangler."

by Lieg March 21, 2010

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

Portmand

When the very fabric of your being gets erased from the corridor of time when they who shall not be named places a black bag on your head, wipes all record of you ever existing in the first place, shaves off your hair and puts you in a room for months on end.

Just like in V For Vendetta, where Natalie gets Portmand - The government gave humans a quick glimpse of the reality.

I’ve said too much, I won’t be making it through the night bro…

Zef: We gotta be careful what we say bro, I cannot get Portmand like the rest of them.

Tang: You’ve already said too much, goodbye old friend…

by Mr Tang June 1, 2021

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