OT: The currently popular word, "Brexit,"

[Kibitzer]

is a portmanteau, formed by joining two words ("Britain" and "Exit") together. Common examples: Motel and Brunch.

Any others come to mind - real or imaginative?

Go!

 

[Gus Mahler]

is a portmanteau, formed by joining two words ("Britain" and "Exit") together. Common examples: Motel and Brunch.

Any others come to mind - real or imaginative?

Go!

Well, we need an AACexit.

 

[Kibitzer]

Well, we need an AACexit.

An AAxit?

 

[pacific 44]

Thanks to Kentucky and Duke, Uconn will doublt benefit from the Azbatexit.

 

[Kibitzer]

Thanks to Kentucky and Duke, Uconn will doublt benefit from the Azbatexit.

. . . and UConn will benefit from the Azurarrival.

 

[bags27]

I love these neologisms. They vivify our language. My favorite expression coming out of the Brexit crisis is a similar movement in the Czech Republic: Czechout!

 

[veryolddog]

The next one coming is "Texit". I hear that the vote is coming in 2017.

 

[Kibitzer]

The next one coming is "Texit". I hear that the vote is coming in 2017.

Texiera is leaving the Yankees?

 

[Gus Mahler]

How about FloJo? (Florence Joyner)

 

[Woof 101]

My favorite is UConn. Then there is Bosox. I was going to throw in Obamacare but that is actually an oxymoron.

 

[Kibitzer]

@Woof 101. You forgot Neocon.

 

[MilfordHusky]

@Woof 101. You forgot Neocon.

Are Crystal, Kyla, Molly, Azura, and Batouly considered NeoConns?

 

[MilfordHusky]

How about FloJo? (Florence Joyner)

MoJeff.

 

[Charliebball]

I thought Brexit was when Breanna Stewart graduated from UConn

 

[meyers7]

Here's a few out there in the lexicon.

Bootylicious. Sitcom. rom-com. Mockumentary. spork. metrosexual. motorcycle. Carjack. Spanglish. Guesstimate. blog. email. going way back Intellivision.

 

[HuskyNan]

Spork. It's one of my favorites.

 

[Kibitzer]

Bootylicious. Sitcom. rom-com. Mockumentary. spork. metrosexual. motorcycle. Carjack. Spanglish. Guesstimate. blog. email. going way back Intellivision.

All good ones. Made me think of a pioneer in popularizing words like this: Henry Luce of Time Magazine. He created a big splash in domestic journalism with coinages like "cinemactor/cinemactress." Then came Walter Winchell with words like "prostitootsies."

Who originated "veep"?

 

[Carnac]

An AAxit?

Good one Gus. You made me lol on that one.

 

[Carnac]

You can tell it's a slow day here in the yard by the response to Kib's query. No real UConn news of note since the Batouly Camara announcement on May 24.
The OOC schedule has been released. No coveted (Megan Walker) recruit announcements are anticipated until September. We need some (good) breaking (UConn) team news to chew on. It's that time of year again. Welcome to the "dog daze" of summer.

 

[Aluminny69]

I wonder if the word "portmanteau" is itself a portmanteau? The etymology of the word is the French porte-manteau, from porter, to carry, and manteau, cloak (from Old French mantel, from Latin mantellum).

The word "portmanteau" was first used in this context by Lewis Carroll in the book Through the Looking-Glass (1871),[10] in which Humpty Dumpty explains to Alice the coinage of the unusual words in Jabberwocky,[11] where "slithy" means "slimy and lithe" and "mimsy" is "miserable and flimsy." Humpty Dumpty explains the practice of combining words in various ways by telling Alice:

You see it's like a portmanteau—there are two meanings packed up into one word.

A humorous synonym for "portmanteau word" (in the sense of "blend") is frankenword, itself an example of the phenomenon it describes (i. e., an autological word), blending "Frankenstein" and "word".

 

[CTyankee]

Soccer fans are using Brexit2 as England has been dumped out of the Euro Cup by minnow like Iceland. Population 325,000 or so...

 

[CTyankee]

Need a portmanteau legally recognized since 1977, 7 letters. The Mrs. Is going nuts on a Xword puzzle.

 

[calpedaler]

Need a portmanteau legally recognized since 1977, 7 letters. The Mrs. Is going nuts on a Xword puzzle.

Any letters?

 

[CTyankee]

Could have... ???mony

 

[calpedaler]

Could have... ???mony

Pali?