Portmanteau words

'Portmanteau' words are combinations of two words into an invented, blended word.

Some portmanteau words I've collected:

A word formed by merging the sounds and meanings of two different words; for example, slithy, from lithe and slimy; chortle, from chuckle and snort, slimsy from slim and flimsy.

birl (burr + whirl),

scrooch (crouch + hunch),

scuzzy (scum + fuzzy),

ginormous (gigantic and enormous),

bodacious (bold +audacious),

splotch (spot, blot, and blotch),

blotch (blot and botch),

meld (melt + weld),

splurge (splash and surge),

squiggle (squirm +wriggle),

gawp (gape + gawk – Bill Bryson),

mingy (mean + stingy),

wodge (wad+ wedge)

minify (minimum + magnify),

ditsy (dotty + dizzy),

judder (jerk + shudder),

judgmatic (judg(ment) + (dog)matic,

jalopidated,

titivate (tidy + elevate),

twiddle (twist + fiddle),

bathetic (bathos + pathetic),

slurb (slum or slovenly + suburb),

bumble (bungle + stumble),

bumboozle (bamboozle + fuddle + fuzzy),

bumptious (bump + presumptious)

galumph (gallop + triumph)

[Katy:]

flustrated (frustrated and flustered),

insinuendo (insinuate and inuendo)

peasely (piddly + measly),

compliable (complacent +pliable),

blistery (blustery + wintry),

thin & bones,

explursion (explosion + splurge),

onomatic (on +automatic),

frizzling [bacon] (fry + sizzling),

fleckled (fleck + speckled),

realable (real + believable),

tinch (titch + pinch),

slunch (slouch + hunch),

[Maureen]

tight-nitched (tight-knit and niche),

incringing (infringe + cringe +impinge)

Origin of 'portmanteau': In Through the Looking-Glass Humpty Dumpty uses portmanteau to describe the word slithy, saying, “It's like a portmanteau—there are two meanings packed up into one word” (the meanings being “lithe” and “slimy”)

And here's a list of them online:

http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/portmant.htm

I like

chillaxing (chilling and relaxing)

glamping (glamorous and camping) - see my previous post

olionaire (oil + millionaire)

smudgimate (smudge + estimate)

And another list

http://www.english-for-students.com/Portmanteau-Words.html

bitini (itsy-bitsy + bikini)

toughiccult (tough + difficult)

And another

http://www.montgomerycollege.edu/~steuben/blendwords.htm

pang (pain + sting)

glitz (glamor + Ritz)

goon (gorilla + baboon)

prissy (prim + sissy)