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What does portmanteau mean?

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A portmanteau is a word that is formed by combining two different terms to create a new entity. A portmanteau word is a type of compound word in which some sounds (phonemes) are blended rather than combined whole. For example, the english blend nixonomics has been formed by combining nixon and economics and subtracting the string neco. There are now very many portmanteau words that have become accepted as valid in their own right : smog”, brunch”, infotainment”, dumbfound”, fanzine”, genome”, sitcom” and so forth. A portmanteau is when two or more words blend together to make a new word. This one, in particular, is used, not surprisingly, as a part of a gin commercial another example is the word charomat, which consists of the words чар (the bulgarian word for charm) and аромат (meaning aroma), made popular by an ad about a coffee brand. However, there are many older words that we may not recognize are indeed portmanteaus. Compounds displaying sanskritic funny word combinations are e...