Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index This article lists examples of portmanteaus, or words formed by combining two other words, in the English language. Table of contents 1 General 2 Internet and computing 3 Marketing 4 Art, literature and entertainment 5 Created by Lewis Carroll in Jabberwocky General blaxploitation from black and exploitation bleen from blue and green (coined by Nelson Goodman to illustrate Goodman's paradox) brunch from breakfast and lunch chortle from chuckle and snort (coined by Lewis Carroll) ebonics from ebony and phonics faction from fact and fiction fantabulous from fantastic and fabulous frankenfood from Frankenstein and food frankenword from Frankenstein and word ginormous from gigantic and enormous grue from green and blue (coined by Nelson Goodman to illustrate Goodman's paradox) guesstimate from guess and estimate liger from lion and tiger mantastic from man and fantastic meliatria from melia and patria melodrama from melody and drama mockney from mock and Cockney motel from motor and hotel Oxbridge from Oxford and Cambridge Republicrat or Demopublican from Republican and Democrat (or vice versa) rockumentary from rock and documentary (also mockumentary, from mock and documentary) sexcellent from sex and excellent sexploitation from sex and exploitation smog from smoke and fog soundscape from sound and landscape spork from spoon and fork squiggle from squirm and wiggle stagflation from stagnation and inflation tangelo from tangerine and pomelo televangelist from television and evangelist tigon from tiger and lion Internet and computing apronym from appropriate and acronym ASCIIbetical from ASCII and alphabetical automagic(al) from automatic and magic(al) backronym from back and acronym bit from binary and digit codec from coder and decoder digerati from digital and literati emoticon from emotion and icon Internet from inter and network freeware from free and software knowledgebase from knowledge and database modem from modulator and demodulator netizen from (Inter)net and citizen netiquette from (Inter)net and etiquette (similarly, wikiquette) pixel from picture and element qubit from quantum and bit shareware from share and software smudgemate from smudge and estimate spamdexing from spam and indexing sporgery from spam and forgery voxel from volume and pixel Marketing advertainment from advertising and entertainment advertorial from advertising and editorial cineplex from cinema and complex (building) docudrama from documentary and drama docusoap from documentary and soap opera (serialised drama) dramality from dramatic and reality (television) edutainment from education and entertainment infomercial from information and commercial infotainment from information and entertainment multiplex from multiple and cineplex! - this word has a different meaning in telecommunications Art, literature and entertainment arfé from art and café Bollywood from Bombay and Hollywood dancercise from dance and exercise dancersize from dance and circumsize, coined in jest on Fry and Laurie mathercise from mathematics and excercise, used by Mr. Morales to describe group aerobics involving shaping one's body into the specified equation. Kripkenstein from Kripke and Wittgenstein, coined to describe a philosophical position that Kripke argued one could read into Wittgenstein's work, but which neither he nor Wittgenstein accepted. machinima from machine and cinema Orgasmatron Orgasm and Electron(ic) - from Woody Allen's Sleeper sacrilicious from sacrilege and delicious, used by Homer Simpson Created by Lewis Carroll in Jabberwocky beamish brillig burbled callay callooh chortled frabjous frumious galumphing maxomome mimsy mome slithy tulgey uffish vorpal wabe whiffling This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.