In linguistics, a blend—also known as a blend word, lexical blend, or portmanteau—is a word formed by combining the meanings, and parts of the sounds...
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up Blend, blend, blends, blended, or blending in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A blend is a mixture of two or more different substances. Blend may...
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Gudetama (category All articles with specifically marked weasel-worded phrases)
apathetic anthropomorphic egg yolk. The name "Gudetama" is a portmanteau or blend word of the Japanese words for lazy (ぐでぐで, gudegude) and egg (たまご, tamago)...
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Cosplay, a blend word of "costume play", is an activity and performance art in which participants called cosplayers wear costumes and fashion accessories...
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forming a word from two or more letters that represent the sounds of a word Blending (music), a technique used in instrument playing Blending (vocal technique)...
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psychokinesis. The term is a blend word of psi (in the sense of "psychic phenomena") and the -onics from electronics. The word "psionics" began as, and always...
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be difficult to view and use on a mobile device." The protologism is a blend word of "mobile" and "Armageddon" because the change "could cause massive disruption...
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Indian Bengali film industry has been known by the nickname Tollywood, a blend word of the words Tollygunge and Hollywood, since 1932. In the 1930s, West...
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In astrophysics, a gravastar (a blend word of "gravitational vacuum star") is an object hypothesized in a 2001 paper by Pawel O. Mazur and Emil Mottola...
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Mansplaining (a blend word of man and the informal form splaining of the gerund explaining) is a pejorative term meaning "(for a man) to comment on or...
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combining or straddling the size formats of smartphones and tablets. The word is a blend word of phone and tablet. The term was largely unused by the late 2010s...
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Calque (redirect from Loan blend)
calque (/kælk/) or loan translation is a word or phrase borrowed from another language by literal word-for-word or root-for-root translation. When used...
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from Sandoval de la Reina, Spain, earlier called Sannoval, which is a blend word of Latin saltus (meaning 'grove' or 'wood') and Latin novalis (meaning...
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Clipping (morphology) (redirect from Clipped word)
clippings. Abbreviation Acronym Blend word Clipping (phonetics) Compound (linguistics) Contraction (grammar) Diminutive Word formation "Shortenings". Oxford...
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A lexical blend is a complex word typically made of two word fragments. For example: smog is a blend of smoke and fog brunch is a blend of breakfast...
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Movie Quotes List of catchphrases Category:Catchphrases Anti-proverb Blend word Blurb Buzzword Cliché Clickbait Earworm Eggcorn "Holy..." Jabberwocky...
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The name of the horse is a word play—a blend word or a portmanteau—a combination of Rosinante (Rocinante) and the Finnish word for raisin, rusina. In the...
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music notation. Blend word – Word consisting of two words put together List of portmanteaus Clipping (morphology) – Reduction of a word to one of its parts...
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agreement expired and was officially introduced the Finlux brand, which was a blend word of "Finlandia" and "Luxor"; this was the first time that Finlux had been...
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Clipped compound (category Word coinage)
comp sci, lab tech, and surg tech. A clipped compound word is linguistically a type of blend word. The nature of its morphology and orthography (i.e.,...
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The memtransistor (a blend word from Memory Transfer Resistor) is an experimental multi-terminal passive electronic component that might be used in the...
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Rangel, Marisa Orth and Drica Moraes. The show's title is a Portuguese blend word formed from the phrase "assessor de porra [or porcaria] nenhuma" (lit...
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the masculine (phallus) in the construction of meaning. The term is a blend word of the older terms phallocentrism (focusing on the masculine point of...
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Afterschool Summoners (東京放課後サモナーズ, Tōkyō Hōkago Samonāzu), known also by the blend word Housamo (放サモ, derived from Tōkyō Hōkago Samonāzu), is an F2P role-playing...
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president of the United States and first in line to the presidency. A blend word of the words "veep" and "sweepstakes", the neologism has been found in...
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umbrella term. To render this ambiguous notion in English, linguists use the blend word grue, from green and blue, a term coined by the philosopher Nelson Goodman—with...
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for a time the word "Vril" came to be associated with "life-giving elixirs". An example is in the name of Bovril, coined as a blend word of Bovine and...
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a word for tea in numerous languages Masala chai, a blend of black tea and herbs and spices, originating in India Chai (symbol), the Hebrew word for...
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Westsplaining (a blend word of west and the informal form -splaining of the gerund explaining) is a pejorative term that represents criticism of Western...
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