Language is an ever-changing thing. We have words that are, well, words and then words that are the result of blending two or more words together, like chortle (from chuckle and snort), smog (from smoke and fog), brunch (from breakfast and lunch). There is actually a word that describes such combined words: portmanteau. Man we have words for *everything*.
Lewis Carroll was the first to use portmanteau to describe this specific type of word structure, and he then proceeded to go WILD.
’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass, Jabberwocky
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
You might find this poem kinda nonsensical, but I have created a word for THAT: portmanonsense.
Heh.
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