Portmanteau

A portmanteau is a new word that is made up by combining the sounds and meanings of two or more words. The word 'portmanteau' means suitcase in the English world.

The most common portmanteau words are: brunch (breakfast+lunch, introduced by the Punch magazine in 1896), smog (smoke+fog), jeggings (jeans+leggings) and Chinglish (Chinese + English).

Here are some more portmanteau words:

• Internet (international+network)
• Oxbridge (Oxford+Cambridge)
• ginormous (gigiantic+enormous)
• cocacolonisation (coca-cola+conolisation)
• sitcom (situation+comedy)
• mozilla (as in mozilla firefox) (mosaic-killer+godzilla)
• Edexcel (educational+excellence)
• FedEx (Federal+Express)
• Microsoft (Microcomputer+software)
• Insolation (Incoming+solar+radiation)
• Beatles (beat+beetles)
• because (by+cause)
• goodbye (god+be+with+ye)