A portmanteau, plural portmanteaux, is a word or morpheme that fuses two or more words or word parts to give a combined or loaded new meaning. It is a common misunderstanding that a portmanteau is a mixture of any two words, which is actually known as a blend. A folk usage of portmanteau refers to a word formed by combining both sounds and meanings from two or more words, such as spork from spoon and fork. They are called blends in linguistics. Etymology and usage This usage of the word was coi… (More on Portmanteau)