FromMiddle Frenchportemanteau(“coat stand”), fromporte(“carries”,third-person singular present indicative ofporter(“to carry”)) +manteau(“coat”), literally“[that which] carries coat”.
portmanteau (pluralportmanteausorportmanteaux)
- A largetravellingcase usually made ofleather, andopening into twoequalsections.
- Alternative forms:portemanteau,(obsolete)portmantua
1667,Charles Croke,Fortune's Uncertainty:Rodolphus therefore finding such an earnest Invitation, embrac'd it with thanks, and with his Servant andPortmanteau, went to Don Juan's; where they first found good Stabling for their Horses, and afterwards as good Provision for themselves.
1859 December 13,Charles Dickens, “The Mortals in the House”, in Charles Dickens, editor,The Haunted House. The Extra Christmas Number ofAll the Year Round […], volume II, London: […] C[harles] Whiting, […],→OCLC,page 7, column 2:He brought down with him to our haunted house a little cask of salt beef; for, he is always convinced that all salt beef not of his own pickling, is mere carrion, and invariably, when he goes to London, packs a piece in hisportmanteau.
1918 February (date written),Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Je ne parle pas français”, inBliss and Other Stories, London:Constable & Company, published1920,→OCLC,page71:I believe that people are likeportmanteaux—packed with certain things, started going, thrown about, tossed away, dumped down, lost and found, half emptied suddenly, or squeezed fatter than ever, until finally the Ultimate Porter swings them on to the Ultimate Train and away they rattle. . . .
- (Australia, dated) Aschoolbag.
- Synonyms:port,school port
- (archaic) Ahook on which tohangclothing.
1918 February (date written),Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Je ne parle pas français”, inBliss and Other Stories, London:Constable & Company, published1920,→OCLC,page72:But before I started that long and rather far-fetched and not frightfully original digression, what I meant to say quite simply was that there are noportmanteaux to be examined here because the clientele of this café, ladies and gentlemen, does not sit down.
case
- Albanian:baule (sq) f
- Arabic:حَقِيبَة سَفَر f(ḥaqībat safar)
- Breton:mal (br) f,malizenn f
- Bulgarian:голям кожен куфар(goljam kožen kufar)
- Czech:kontaminace
- Dutch:koffer (nl) f,valies (nl) f
- Estonian:reisikott,kohver,laadik
- Finnish:matkalaukku (fi)
- French:portemanteau (fr) m,valise (fr) f,malle (fr) f
- German:Koffer (de) m
- Interlingua:valise
- Latin:averta f
- Lithuanian:lagaminas m
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål:koffert m
- Nynorsk:koffert m
- Persian:چمدان (fa)(čamedân)
- Polish:waliza (pl) f
- Portuguese:maleta (pt) f,valise (pt) f
- Romanian:valiză (ro) f
- Russian:чемода́н (ru) m(čemodán),бау́л (ru) m(baúl), дорожнаясу́мка (ru) f(súmka)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic:кожни кофер m(kožni kofer)
- Spanish:maleta (es) f,valija (es) f
- Swedish:kappsäck (sv) c
- Turkish:bavul (tr)
- Ottoman Turkish:خرج(hurc)
- Vietnamese:va li (vi)
- Yoruba:pọtimáńtò
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First used byLewis Carroll inThrough the Looking-Glass to describe the words he coined in “Jabberwocky”.
portmanteau (notcomparable)
- (attributive, linguistics) Made by combining two (or more) words, stories, etc., in the manner of a linguistic portmanteau.
2002 December 14, Nicholas Lezard, “Spooky tales by the master and friends”, inThe Guardian (London), page30:The overall narrator of thisportmanteau story - for Dickens co-wrote it with five collaborators on his weekly periodical,All the Year Round - expresses deep, rational scepticism about the whole business of haunting.
portmanteau (pluralportmanteausorportmanteaux)
- (linguistics) A word formed by putting two words together and thereby their meaning e.g. shrinkflation.
- Synonyms:blend,frankenword,portmanteau word,portmantologism
- Aportmanteau film.
2002 December 11, Nick Bradshaw, “One day in September”, inTime Out, page71:We're so bombarded with images, it's a struggle to preserve our imaginations.' In response, he's turned to cinema, commissioning 11 film-makers to contribute to aportmanteau film, entitled '11'09"01' and composed of short films each running 11 minutes, nine seconds and one frame.
2021 July 12, Nicholas Barber, “The French Dispatch: Four stars for Wes Anderson's latest”, inBBC[1]:His long-awaitedportmanteau, which premiered in Cannes on Monday, is the mostAnderson of all Anderson films. It's Anderson distilled, Anderson squared, Anderson to the nth degree.
portmanteau (third-person singular simple presentportmanteaus,present participleportmanteauing,simple past and past participleportmanteauedorportmanteau'd)
- (transitive) Tocreate aportmanteau word.
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