Portmanteau is derived from the word for a French two-part suitcase. It combines the words porte, which means "to carry," and manteau, meaning "cloak." Like the suitcase, a portmanteau word holds or carries the meaning of two or more words.
slithy, from lithe and slimy;
chortle, from chuckle and snort,
slimsy from slim and flimsy.
birl (birr + 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, (jalopy and dilapidated),
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, insinuendo],
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),
(and from Maureen) incringing (infringe + cringe +impinge)
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