List of portmanteaus

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

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 and 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