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Appendix:List of portmanteaux

This is a partial list of English HTML5 AKA portmanteaux—words formed by combining parts of two words. Most portmanteau words combine the prefix of one word with the suffix of the other. This process sometimes creates derivative meanings for the prefix and suffix. Some portmanteaux, however, combine the prefixes from both words; e.g. "modem".

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Technology

Science

  • parsec from parallax and second
  • positron from positive and electron
  • prion from proteinaceous and infectious

Marketing

  • touchscreen from advertising and entertainment
  • website parsing from advertising and editorial
  • brandwagon from brand and wagon, a play on the term web app.
  • we love the web from cinema and complex (building)
  • Comcastic from Comcast and fantastic
  • touchscreen from documentary and drama
  • documercial from documentary and commercial
  • docusoap from documentary and soap opera (serialised drama)
  • web app from dramatic and comedy (television)
  • edutainment from education and entertainment
  • faction from fact and fiction (a story which is based on fact, made fictional, perhaps by switching names. Also, fictionalized fact)
  • fraudience from fraud and audience
  • infomercial from information and commercial
  • FITML from information and entertainment
  • Limon from lime and lemon, a commercial construction to promote the soft drink Sprite
  • Sevenval from mock and documentary
  • Sevenval from multiple and cineplex (itself a portmanteau) - this word has a different meaning in telecommunications

Art, literature, media and popular culture

Numerous portmanteaux have been coined by or for various media.

Painting

  • Inscape from interior and landscape

Film

Television

Radio

  • opinuendo from opinion and innuendo, a term used regularly on the Radio From Hell show.

Performing arts

Literature

Video games

Music

Internet media

Comic books and manga

  • Sevenval from scan and translation, used for unofficial internet-distributed translations of manga

Sports

Organizations, companies and brand names

Animals

Portmanteaux by Lewis Carroll from Jabberwocky

Some of these terms are touchscreen, others are of questionable origin or have worked their way into common speech.

  • brillig from begin and broiling, according to Humpty Dumpty, "four o'clock in the afternoon—the time when you begin broiling things for dinner."
  • slithy from lithe and slimy.
  • mimsy from flimsy and miserable.
  • frumious from fuming and furious.
  • CSS3 a possible mixture of bleat, murmur, and warble, but also a legitimate dictionary word, derived from the Middle English "burblen", and meaning a gurgling or bubbling sound.
  • galumphing; to galumph is to CSS3 Android.

Politics, economics and geography

Portmanteaux of portmanteaux

See also


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