Poor Man's Toe
Today whilst doing Spork research for a friend (yes, indeed), I learned a new word, portmanteau.
A portmanteau is a word made from combining two different words together to make a new word. Breakfast & lunch = brunch. Smoke & fog = smog. Spoon & fork = well, you know. It's from the French words "porter", (to carry) and "manteau", (a coat or cover), so you can obviously see why it's used to mean combining two words together. (Cartelduexmots must be the word for walking with your jacket in your hand.)
Is uselinfo an appropriate portmanteau? Does my favorite word, Ricockulous count as a portmanteau? What's the legal limit to how many times you can use the word portmanteau in a blog? Make up your own portmanteau and send it to me. I'd love to see one using the word portmanteau.
5 comments:
My "Poor Man's Toe" is SHART. We use it quite a bit. It's when you have the stomach flu and you shit and fart at the same time. (remember, you asked for people to send theirs in!)
I love you! I have tears from laughing so hard! Perhaps we won't be visiting for a while...
No sharts here, promise! Looking forward to your visit!
Linner= lunch and dinner combined because you lagged and chose to eat so late.
Here's one: skort
You know, part skirt and part shorts. Ok its not exactly SHART but it's all i got...
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