portmanteau words

[language arts]

what 2 words make up the word glugging?

[language arts]

Originally Posted by language arts

what 2 words make up the word glugging?

"the toilet stopped glugging..."

[MikeNewYork]

Originally Posted by language arts

"the toilet stopped glugging..."

I have no idea. This word seems more like an example of onomatopoeia than portmanteau.

[Jamgirl]

Sorry for being thick, but I have never heard the expression 'portmanteau word' and I'm English! Can someone explain to me what this means?

[Mariner]

It means that there are two meanings (i.e. words) included in one word. These are usually made-up words.
Some examples:

"slithy" means "lithe" and "slimy" (If I'm not mistaken, that's the first portmanteau ever used, in the book Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871)

"infomercial" from "information" and "commercial"

"smog" from "smoke" and "fog"

[queenbu]

So....'blog' would be a portmanteau word?

[MikeNewYork]

Originally Posted by Jamgirl

Sorry for being thick, but I have never heard the expression 'portmanteau word' and I'm English! Can someone explain to me what this means?

A portmanteau is a suitcase that opens in to two large hinged compartments.
Therefore, it is two things carried as one. That is the analogy here -- two words carried as one.

smoke + fog = smog
Reagan + economics = Reaganomics
snow + rain = snain

[BobK]

Originally Posted by queenbu

So....'blog' would be a portmanteau word?

In lessons earlier this year I said it was. But, on reflection, I'd say it's not. It's made up of two words all right, but it's just an abbreviation of 'web-log'.

(But in that same semantic field, "emoticon" is.)

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[queenbu]

Originally Posted by BobK

In lessons earlier this year I said it was. But, on reflection, I'd say it's not. It's made up of two words all right, but it's just an abbreviation of 'web-log'.
(But in that same semantic field, "emoticon" is.)
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So is 'netiquette',right?
I admit, i had never heard of portmanteau words!

[BobK]

Originally Posted by queenbu

So is 'netiquette',right?
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