A challenge has been laid at the feet of Asiankp. A certain blogger has called her out. Read her nonsense here. To this nonsense, I say again, its called a portmanteau.
My friends at Merriam-Webster define portmanteau as a word or morpheme whose form and meaning are derived from a blending of two or more distinct forms (as smog from smoke and fog). The word in question is verocious which is Asiankp's blending of two or more distinct forms (ferocious and vicious) to make a new word whose meaning is defined by the two distinct forms.
Some other portmanteaus: brunch (breakfast+ lunch), motel (motor+ hotel), chortle (chuckle+snort), bodacious (bold+ audacious), fugly (you know+ugly), dramedy (drama+comedy), fantabulous (fantastic+ fabulous), spork (spoon+ fork), Jazzercise (jazz+ exercise), liger (lion+ tiger), metrosexual (metropolitan + heterosexual), Spanglish (Spanish+ English), and of course, Brangelina (Brad+ Angelina).
Granted, my portmanteau is not widely accepted by the English speaking world nor has it found its way into everyday jargon, but give it time. Heck, Louis Carroll did it and Shakespeare made up words all the time. Get with the program.
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Until I have a chance to submit your post tot further review, I would like to appease you and buy some time with humorous offerings:
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They're not acronyms, but some of it's pritty damn funny...
WOW, NICEly argued Katie!
Maybe if Maggie had observed proper "netiquette" (internet + etiquette) and not called kp out publicly, she wouldn't find herself in the position of having to defend her "mimsy" (flimsy + miserable) arguments.
So Katie can go "gallumphing" (galloping triumphantly) into the sunset with her victory on this one...
i tip my hat to you lagartija...those are some prawesome (pretty awesome) portmanteaus. I'm so lucky that my family is so smart...with the exception of mindless, senseless arguing from Mags but we love her anyway. seriously tija...i'm impressed.
Sure, persecute the "Defender of Truth and Real Wordage," Shakespearre.
Go right ahead.
This portmanteau thing is madness. I thought verocious was pretty self-evident all along (but was the nice hint of voracious intentional).
Mimsy and galumph (which only has one L) are both from the Carrol, who also coined the term 'pormanteau word.'
Carroll, on the other hand, has two 'L's, and you're missing a question mark. Maybe you should proofread when you call people out.
Du ewe ar sutch eniddiot.
And here I was thinking a portmanteau was an archaic word used in older literature to mean "large suitcase."
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