portmanteau
- n a new word formed by joining two others and combining their meanings
`motel' is a portmanteau word made by combining `motor' and `hotel'
`brunch' is a well-known portmanteau - n a large travelling bag made of stiff leather
- Locals call it Lusi a portmanteau of the Indonesian word for mud, lumpur, and the name of the nearest city, Sidoarjo.
- The mind that created the Miltonic rhetoric, the subtle architecture, the poly-portmanteau language of Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, found its last peace in talking to an eight-year .
- London Assurance is peopled with enough eccentrics to fill the portmanteau of a Victorian novel.