portmanteau word in English

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a word blending the sounds and combining the meanings of two others, for example motel (from ‘motor’ and hotel’) or brunch (from ‘breakfast’ and ‘lunch’).
The school student may be too naive to know that karaoke is a portmanteau word blending two Japanese words: ‘kara’ meaning empty (as in karate meaning empty hand) and oke (short for okesutora meaning orchestra).
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1. 9 Stagflation is a portmanteau word made of stagnation and inflation.

2. 7 Stagflation is portmanteau word made of stagnation and inflation.

3. 2 'Motel' is a portmanteau word made up from 'motor' and 'hotel'.

4. 23 I'd experience a form of parental sorrow that should be endowed with a German portmanteau word, say, Mutterkinderwinterfahrenschade.

5. 14 The addition of "Chindonesia", a portmanteau word which blends China, India and Indonesia, reflects the shifting focus of world trade.

6. 8 The word e-tailer is a portmanteau word derived from 'electronic' and 'retailer', in a similar way to 'e-mail'.

7. Backronym is a portmanteau word that combines backward and acronym.It is used when a group of letters is given words that are supposed to make the acronym or initialism up

8. Crossbreeds are those dogs which have been purposefully bred by combining two or more recognized canine breeds. Most of them are referred to by a portmanteau word to identify their origin, comprising of the names or syllables of both their parents

9. Blend - a new word formed by joining two others and combining their meanings; "`smog' is a Blend of `smoke' and `fog'"; "`motel' is a portmanteau word made by combining `motor' and `hotel'"; "`brunch' is a well-known portmanteau"

10. The term is a portmanteau word formed by combining the words "agriculture" and "inflation," and describes a general rise in prices that is caused by rising production costs for agricultural goods.Agflation is a type of cost-push inflation, or increase in the price level that is caused by an