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Can you name the two words which combined to create the new word?
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marzoz10
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*** A portmanteau word is a new word created by the combination of two existing words; eg. chocolate + alcoholic = chocoholic
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Wordplay by Chris Cole
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Portmanteau
Combining Words
anecdotage
brunch
chortle
dramedy
edutainment
flunk
gerrymander
hokum
immittance
jolt
knurl
lidar
motel
Portmanteau
Combining Words
nickelodeon
Oxbrige
prissy
quiddle
ruckus
smog
transceiver
umpteen
volumeter
wistful
xeriscape
Yinglish
zillionaire
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Portmanteau Beginning With Each Letter Quiz
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RebeccaAMax
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May 19th, 2010 at 04:01 GMT
1 point
Some of these words are not portmanteaux. I'm not actually sure they're all words in the first place.
marzoz10
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May 19th, 2010 at 04:51 GMT
1 point
I'm using my source as cited in the instructions.
RebeccaAMax
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May 19th, 2010 at 13:31 GMT
0 points
I've never read the book, but that would make the author really stupid, wouldn't it? "Anecdote," for example, has nothing to do with "dotage"; it's "anecdote" with an "-age" suffix.
RebeccaAMax
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May 19th, 2010 at 14:38 GMT
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*"anecdotage," obviously
marzoz10
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May 20th, 2010 at 22:26 GMT
1 point
No, it would make him better read than you. Check out the "origin" line from the dictionary entry here: http://www.yourdictionary.com/anecdotage
multislack
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Jun 8th, 2010 at 01:47 GMT
1 point
I think zillion, billionaire also works for zillionaire.
RebeccaAMax
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Jun 21st, 2010 at 03:24 GMT
1 point
Oh, so you mean it's a portmanteau according to a definition that no one ever uses. I see.
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