portmantle

Noun

portmanteau (plural portmanteaus or portmanteaux)

1. A large travelling case usually made of leather, and opening into two equal sections.
   • A Rover tooke him unprepared, / Search't his Port-mantua, bound him faſter, / And ſent him naked to his Maſter: […]1638, Corymbœus [pseudonym; Richard Brathwait], “His Northerne Journey: Third Part”, in Barnabees Journall; […], [London]: […] [John Haviland], →OCLC, signature P2, recto
2. A word formed by putting two words together and thereby their meaning.
   • Well, ‘slithy’ means ‘lithe and slimy.’ ‘Lithe’ is the same as ‘active.’ You see it’s like a portmanteau⸺there are two meanings packed up into one word.[1871 December 27 (indicated as 1872), Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], “Humpty Dumpty”, in Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, London: Macmillan and Co....

   Synonyms:

   portmanteau word, blend, blend word, lexical blend, amalgamation, brunch word, frankenword, portmantologism, telescope word

3. A portmanteau film.
   • We're so bombarded with images, it's a struggle to preserve our imaginations.' In response, he's turned to cinema, commissioning 11 film-makers to contribute to a portmanteau film, entitled '11'09"01' and composed of short films each running 11 minutes, nine seconds and one frame.2002 December 11, Nick Bradshaw, “One day in September”, in Time Out, page 71
4. (Australia, dated) A schoolbag.

   Synonyms:

   port, school port

5. (archaic) A hook on which to hang clothing.
   • But before I started that long and rather far-fetched and not frightfully original digression, what I meant to say quite simply was that there are no portmanteaux to be examined here because the clientele of this café, ladies and gentlemen, does not sit down.1918 February (date written), Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Je ne parle pas français”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC...

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