What's your fave portmanteau? I'm fond of "relaxative"
Posted on: May 26, 2008I like combining existing words to come up with new ones: c'est like synthesizing ideas, only textier. I recently googled for "relaxative", and pleasantly found it'd already been entered on the Urban Dictionary, and defined as:
Anything, physical or emotional, that clears and frees a constipated mind.
The best relaxative for any of my stresses is my lady.
I like that a lot. It's sweet. We've different ways of referring to "mental constipation"; I call it slop ("Chop the slop!"), some of my friends call it sewage, sludge, or certain other s-words.
What's your fave portmanteau?
(And lest you forget this somewhat-difficult word, easy mnemonic: "poor man's toes", as my wife declared.)
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May 26th, 2008 at 4:14 PM PDT
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May 27th, 2008 at 8:28 AM PDT
Not sure if it's a portmanteau, but there's dialect and regiolect (a regiolect would be a collection of more or less similar dialects from a region) in language. For pronounciation of language, deliberately changed in order to win popularity (think radio deejays, rappers etc.) I invented populect.
Sadly, noone's ever picked up on the word, not in my own Dutch, nor in English.
June 1st, 2008 at 10:35 AM PDT
@Russell: THAT'S GOOD.
@Laetizia: I'd say that's a portmanteau, or at least, a neologism of sorts. I wouldn't give up on using that word yet in hopes it'll spread; it sounds to me like it has growing legs to come!