What’s your portmanteau?
Today I've been chained to a very large very expensive machine at work that sorts cells. The thing with very large and very expensive machines is that they, like very large and very expensive people, need a lot of attention so I've been sitting with it all day whilst it does it's magic.
Luckily for me this machine has a PC connected to it and this PC has internet access. Its always a treat to use Windows. I imagine myself a prince having escaped from his palace in disguise to mingle with the common folk, doing the things that common folk do. Anyway, I digress. So while on the internet I was researching some things. In my boredom I went to the almighty source for all useless information Wikipedia and typed in "Blog."
Naturally there is an entry for "Blog" and I learned that the word blog is a type of word called a portmanteau. A portmanteau, French for suitcase or a valise, is a word that mashes the sounds and meanings of two other words to make a new word.
Some Examples:
web + log = blog
information + commercial = infomercial
smoke + fog = smog
Reagan + economics = Reaganomics
fucking + ugly = fugly
Wikipedia offers a link to a site where you can create your own portmanteau and add it to the collection. Here are some that are on the site.
flux + weight = fluctuweight (to lose and put on weight repeatedly)
apocalypse + lapse = apocolapse (the gap between predictions of when the world will end)
mediocre + democracy = mediocracy (a democracy where mediocrity is allowed to dominate)
You get the idea. I entered a portmanteau that Brad and I commonly use.
procrastinate + masturbate = procrasturbate (to masturbate even when not horny just to avoid doing other pressing tasks)
What’s your portmanteau? Submit Your Portmanteau Here
Luckily for me this machine has a PC connected to it and this PC has internet access. Its always a treat to use Windows. I imagine myself a prince having escaped from his palace in disguise to mingle with the common folk, doing the things that common folk do. Anyway, I digress. So while on the internet I was researching some things. In my boredom I went to the almighty source for all useless information Wikipedia and typed in "Blog."
Naturally there is an entry for "Blog" and I learned that the word blog is a type of word called a portmanteau. A portmanteau, French for suitcase or a valise, is a word that mashes the sounds and meanings of two other words to make a new word.
Some Examples:
web + log = blog
information + commercial = infomercial
smoke + fog = smog
Reagan + economics = Reaganomics
fucking + ugly = fugly
Wikipedia offers a link to a site where you can create your own portmanteau and add it to the collection. Here are some that are on the site.
flux + weight = fluctuweight (to lose and put on weight repeatedly)
apocalypse + lapse = apocolapse (the gap between predictions of when the world will end)
mediocre + democracy = mediocracy (a democracy where mediocrity is allowed to dominate)
You get the idea. I entered a portmanteau that Brad and I commonly use.
procrastinate + masturbate = procrasturbate (to masturbate even when not horny just to avoid doing other pressing tasks)
What’s your portmanteau? Submit Your Portmanteau Here
posted by Adam at 3:06 PM
4 Comments:
severe + serious = severious(ly) as in, "Did you see the hair on dat bitch? It was severiously fugly."
Snotcicle
Mucous running from one's nose during very cold weather that freezes creating snot+icicles, or snotcicles that dangle from one's nostrils.
Well this may not be a Vuitton portmanteau, but a few years back, C and I stayed at a Boston hotel where, every time we entered the elevator, we were attacked by the same set of Muzaked Vivaldi. It became the dreaded Vivaldilator.
C just reminded me of something I had forgotten: while at that hotel, one evening, we walked into the Vivaldilator only to be greeted by silence. C said, "Oh. The Vibaldilator must be Baroqken".
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