portmanteau word

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
portmanteau word
    n 1: a new word formed by joining two others and combining their
         meanings; "`smog' is a blend of `smoke' and `fog'";
         "`motel' is a portmanteau word made by combining `motor'
         and `hotel'"; "`brunch' is a well-known portmanteau" [syn:
         {blend}, {portmanteau word}, {portmanteau}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
portmanteau word \port*man"teau word`\, n. [See {portmanteau}.]
   A word formed by joining two others; -- as, smog is formed
   from {smoke} and {fog}.
   [Wordnet 1.6]
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
22 Moby Thesaurus words for "portmanteau word":
      ambiguity, amphibology, blend, contamination, counterword,
      double entendre, equivocal, equivocality, equivocation, equivoque,
      hybrid, hybrid word, hybridism, macaronic, macaronicism,
      polysemant, portmanteau, portmantologism, pun,
      squinting construction, telescope word, weasel word
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