- portmanteaux
- port·man·teau || ‚pÉ”rt'mæntəʊ /‚pÉ”Ët- n. suitcase, chest, trunk; word or morpheme formed from two other separate units (e.g. smog, formed from 'smoke' and 'fog')
English contemporary dictionary. 2014.
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