Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Portmanteau (n)

An interesting word. Merriam has the first definition as a especially sizable suitcase. But all anyone uses it for are blended words like 'brunch' and 'slithy'.

How a word for a suitcase became a type of combined word is strange to think about. But I guess it works.

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