portmanteau

Wall Street loves an ugly portmanteau, or jamming together of two words in a way that sows confusion, followed closely by dislike.

From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026

SaaSpocalypse is the portmanteau combining the acronym for software-as-a-service, SaaS, with apocalypse.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 24, 2026

Maas is a major player in the romantasy — a portmanteau of romance and fantasy — genre, which has soared in popularity on TikTok.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2026

With Australian billionaire James Packer, Ratner formed RatPac Entertainment—a portmanteau nodding to the Frank Sinatra era of showbiz that Ratner venerated.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 29, 2026

Let us name this portmanteau legal sense Evidence-Legal.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

But in this landscape where we are weary of all these turduckened portmanteaus, the Double Down just doesn’t pack the same culinary gut punch that it once did.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 7, 2023

The goofiest of these portmanteaus, and one of the more enduring, involved the carryall.

From New York Times ● Nov. 8, 2021

If these words were derivatives or portmanteaus of familiar words, context clues could illuminate the meaning.

From Slate ● Aug. 31, 2020

In that first iteration, the anonymous writer explained “hatriot” in almost bemused terms as just one then recent example of portmanteaus like “Republocrat”.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 7, 2019

Our party was broken up into different cars, and our strongest portmanteaus were shattered by the most atrocious handling.

From Two Years in Oregon by Nash, Wallis

The portmanteaux must be left behind, empty, or suspicion would be roused if by chance one of the family paid a visit to the master.

From The Outcaste by Penny, F. E.

In the early middle ages the rich possessed them in profusion, used them as portmanteaux, and carried them about from castle to castle.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" by Various

There are probably twenty brown portmanteaux at this present moment waiting at Jigby Junction, and if I know anything of railway officials, they will be sure to send the wrong one.

From Humorous Readings and Recitations In prose and verse by Various

In fact, it was quite a carriage-ful of us that steamed away north-west from Paddington—namely, Smith, myself, Smith's father and mother, my father and mother, a number of boxes, portmanteaux, and parcels, and Smith's sister.

From Fifty-Two Stories For Girls by Miles, Alfred H. (Alfred Henry)

I see two most small and inconsiderable portmanteaux.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman