What's the difference between frankenword and portmanteau?

Frankenword


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Portmanteau


Definition:

  • (n.) A bag or case, usually of leather, for carrying wearing apparel, etc., on journeys.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In news set to shake the music industry to its very foundations, the two boybands are to merge and go full portmanteau with a tour in 2014.
  • (2) Lifestyle is a convenient portmanteau term which, in relation to the causes of cancer, has come to mean all aspects of the way people behave, whether determined voluntarily or imposed by economic, cultural, or geographic circumstances, including reproduction but arbitrarily excluding occupation.
  • (3) I am guessing that “makery” is a portmanteau for “made-up bakery”.
  • (4) Trump’s supporters, like Brexit supporters before them, will say that these are merely the bleatings of the sore losers – the Remoaners, the Grimtons, or whatever portmanteau is conceived next.
  • (5) We may have only just been given a great new portmanteau term for the type, but the lumbersexual has been here for a while.
  • (6) Kashiwa Reysol The Sun Kings Sanfrecce Hiroshima Sanfrecce is a portmanteau of the Japanese numeral for three, San, and an Italian word frecce or arrows.
  • (7) - One is the ability of digital disrupters (in this case, even within the same company) to take one bit of a newspaper and do it with a conviction, range, depth and passion that a portmanteau print-based newspaper cannot match, especially in digital form.
  • (8) Most – preferably all – portmanteau words should be banned by newspapers and other media organisations, especially “mansplaining”.
  • (9) Sunderland (an estimated 13,000) and Southampton (14,000) against Wimbledon at Selhurst Park in 1996-97 and 1998-99 are two of the more famous examples; the latter led to the portmanteau "Dellhurst Park".
  • (10) He was also the co-creator of the supernatural portmanteau film Dead of Night , to which he contributed the much-imitated yarn about the tormented ventriloquist (Michael Redgrave) and his demonic doll.
  • (11) Also, the portmanteau of square eggs is squeggs, and does that sound like something you should be eating?
  • (12) I’ve got a few better portmanteau words up my sleeve, such as “frackricide”: the lawful killing of someone who refuses to stop talking about fracking; “deathicit”: a plea to be used in mitigation for executing someone who refuses to stop talking about the GERS figures: “My client pleads not guilty to the charge on the grounds of involuntary deathicit.” A “bamsplainer” is a foolish person who insists on using the word “mansplaining”.
  • (13) It should also be noted that in current Hungarian political usage “liberal” doesn’t have the connotations of “civilised”, “enlightened” or “generous”, it’s a portmanteau for leftwing conventions.
  • (14) A former banana-ripening warehouse, it had been bought by Albery's father Donald as a rehearsal space for Margot Fonteyn (Donmar is a portmanteau of their first names), then used by the RSC as its London pied-à-terre in the late 70s.

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