I recently read an article where the term Satisfactory We used. The word intrigued me. According to the author, satisfaction is a combination of adequacy and contentment.
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This led me to investigate whether other words were created by combining the words and meanings of two existing words. I have learned that such a compound word is called portmanteau. I also discovered that there are so many portmantes that we use every day, often they don’t understand what they are.
A portmanteau is usually defined as a large trunk or suitcase that opens into two equal parts. However, Lewis Carroll gave it a new meaning in his book “Through the Looking Glass” when Hampty Dumpty said: “Well, ‘slitty’ means ‘lift and slimmy’ and ‘mimsey’ means” weak and stingy. ” You are a portmanteau-like word.
Some Portmanteau words are very familiar and easy to deconstruct:
Bacronium: Back + Overview
Breathalyzer: Breathing + Analyzer
Brexit: Britain + departure
Camcorder: Camera + Recorder
Caplets: Capsules + Tablets
Glamping: Glamorous + camping
Informative: Information + Commercial
Infotainment: Information + Entertainment
Inskip: interior + landscape
Internet: International + Network
Malware: Malicious + software
Manscaping: Man + landscaping
Field: Melt + welded
Motel: motor + hotel
Motorcycle: Motorized + Bicycle
Netflix: Internet + Flix
Polymoney: Partner + Ex
Plot: plum + apricot
Simulcast: Simultaneous + broadcast
Sitcom: situational + joke
Intermediate: Adolescent + in
Wikipedia: Wiki + Encyclopedia
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Some Portmanteau words are unfamiliar, but they are still relatively easy to deconstruct:
Influenza: Rich + influenza
Expectation: Expectation + frustration
Prerequisite: Preview + Required
Screener: Screen + Teenager
Some words are very familiar, but the term of their contribution may surprise – at least, they surprise me. For example, I never knew that the term blog is made up of web and logs.
Bit: binary + digit
Chartl: Chholachuti + Snort
Cyberg: Cybernetics + Creatures
Endorphins: Pregnancy + morphine
Fortnightly: Fourteen + nights
Profit: Say + against
Garmin: Gary Barrell + Min Cao
Gerimander: Geri + Salamander
Goodbye: God be with you
Groupon: Group + coupon
Trouble: Haggle + Trouble
Humans: Huge + demonic
Disqualification: Disqualification + attitude
Microsoft: microcomputer + software
Modem: Modulation + Demodulation
Mipet: Marine + dolls
Pixels: image + element
Precise: Prim + CC
Skype: Sky + Peer-to-Peer
Smoking: smoking + fog
Taxicab: Taximeter + Cabriolet
Travel Travel: Travel + Isolation
Vitamin: Vita + amine
WiFi: Wireless + fidelity
There were some words I had never seen before. For example, I live in Wisconsin, where we get a lot of snow and ice, and I’ve never used the term for any weather forecast, Snow: Snow and Ice.
Ambigram: obscure + gram
Automatically: Automatic + Magical
Flexible: Vegetarian + Flexible
Flashing: Fog + rain
Asparagus: Spam + fraud
Stagnation: stagnation + inflation
And some words sound like malapropism when we first hear them but they are actually real words; For example, rejection: refutation + refutation.
It really amazes me who originally composed these words, why they felt the need to create them and how they were so disgustingly clever!