Portmanteau Words Trivia

1. Woman + Romance = ?

From Quiz Blended Words

Answer: Womance

Womance is a close friendship between two ladies, though not in a romantic relationship despite that it has similar pronunciation to 'romance'. There are several films where womances are protrayed, including "Baby Mama", "The Women", "Bride Wars" and "Bridesmaids", as well as TV series "Laverne and Shirley" and "Mel & Sue". Womance is the female equivalent of bromance, which is a portmanteau of 'brother' and 'romance'. Womance also refers to a friendship between celebrities.

From Quiz A Portmanteau Edutainment

Answer: Bromance

A bromance is a portmanteau mixture of the words 'bro(ther)' and 'romance'. The other possible answers are inventions.

From Quiz Portmanteaux I Have Known

Answer: Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll (or Charles Dodgson, as he was born) was famous for the way he used words to paint pictures and create amusing stories. He was also a noted mathematician.

From Quiz What's In Your Portmanteau?

Answer: Labradoodle

Labradoodles can vary in their appearance, depending on which side of the family they favor, are easily trained and have low-allergy coats; they're often used as guide dogs. Poodles are also bred with other dogs to form portmanteau names. When bred with Schnauzers, they're called Schnoodles; with Pekingese, they're Pekipoos; and with Cocker Spaniels, they're Cockapoos or Spoodles.

From Quiz Blend words again. More unusual combinations.

Answer: banana and toffee

So you can see, just like the banana and the toffee combine to make the new dish called "banoffee" so the words combine to make a new word for the new dessert. Hmmm! I wonder whether you could eat it with a "spork".(U.S.A.) Yes, that's right an eating implement that has both a bowl and separate tines or a combination of "spoon" and "fork".

From Quiz Put the words in the blender. Find strange results

Answer: channel and tunnel

Before it was built the Channel Tunnel was often referred to as "the Chunnel". Nowadays most people seem to use the full expression "Channel Tunnel". Strange is the behaviour of language.

From Quiz Blended Words

Answer: Moviethon

Moviethon is an event when televised movies are consecutively played for many hours, days, or even longer. Moviethons are common on movie channels, including HBO, Cinemax, and Encore. There are seasonal moviethons, such as Christmas movie marathons broadcasted on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Moviethon may practically refer to consecutive movies played at the theater since it fits with the definition above minus 'televised'. The more appropriate term, in my opinion, would be "cinemarathon", portmanteau of 'cinema' and 'marathon'.

From Quiz A Portmanteau Edutainment

Answer: Reaganomics

Reagan's economic policy saw a return to the free-market and free-enterprise principles underlying a supply-side economics approach - as opposed to Keynesian demand-stimulus economics.

From Quiz Portmanteaux I Have Known

Answer: Groupon

Groupon, which came into being in 2008, negotiates with local businesses to offer deals advertised by email. Usually the deals can only be bought on the day they are offered.

From Quiz What's In Your Portmanteau?

Answer: blog

"Blog", a blend of the words "web" and "log", is a web page where someone (a "blogger") can share their opinions, experiences, and even photos, in an ongoing journal. Other words created from "blog" include blogging (writing a blog), blogosphere (the blogging community), photoblog (a blog with less text and more photos, aka a phlog) and vlog (video blog).

From Quiz Put the words in the blender. Find strange results

Answer: Oxbridge

As the oldest English university Oxford was probably made the prefix in the word "Oxbridge" when referring to Oxford and Cambridge collectively. Reversing the order would give "Camford" but, if it ever really existed, this has now slipped totally out of use. An "Oxbridge" graduate has all the advantages of both a good education and a high "snob" value in the market-place.

From Quiz Blended Words

Answer: Funplex

Funplex is a place where they feature lots of fun games and thrilling rides, including arcade games and go-karts. People play to win tickets, which are used to get things using tickets earned. Safari Land is an example of a funplex I went to. Some funplexes have a dining area where they serve good food, which would give the goers an extra mode of enjoyment.

From Quiz Portmanteaux I Have Known

Answer: Emoticon

There are some fun emoticons,which are a combination of emotions and icons. There are symbols existing for a rose or heart, and you can also express displeasure. Actually, emoticons have been around for quite some time, with the first publication of them in 'Punch' magazine, in 1881.

From Quiz What's In Your Portmanteau?

Answer: celebutante

"Celebutante", a combination of "celebrity" and "debutante", was first used in 1939 (reportedly by Walter Winchell) to describe debutante Brenda Frazier, whose debut in 1938 was widely covered by the press. Also fitting the title of "celebutante" are Paris Hilton, Kim Kardashian and Nicole Richie.

From Quiz Put the words in the blender. Find strange results

Answer: "fantastic" and "fabulous"

This new blend word seems almost unnecessary. It only serves its purpose when someone is being rather exaggeratedly enthusiastic. It really adds nothing new in meaning but just redoubles the strength of the two words it is formed from.

From Quiz Blended Words

Answer: Faniac

Faniacs are obsessed with things of which they are fans. Many sports team faniacs would watch them play a lot, hoping to win each game, as well as reading articles and looking at stats about the team a lot. Faniacs of certain movie franchise such as Star Wars would watch those a ton of times while doing internet research about them. Sci fi faniacs would watch all of the science fiction movies and TV series, including Star Wars, Star Trek, Doctor Who, The X-Files, etc.

From Quiz A Portmanteau Edutainment

Answer: Gerrymander

Elmore Gerry, governor of Massachusetts and later 5th Vice President under James Madison, maximised his party's chances in the 1812 state senate election by passing a bill which redrew the electoral districts. One of these was such a ludicrously elongated shape that it was satirized in the press and likened to a salamander... hence Gerry + mander. Briggs and Morton were also both governors of Massachusetts but the words associated with them and given here as possible answers are inventions. Newt Gingrich is a Georgian congressman and former Speaker rather than a portmanteau word.

From Quiz Portmanteaux I Have Known

Answer: Channel

The Chunnel (Channel Tunnel) was opened in 1994...but the idea for an underground tunnel linking England and France was suggested by Napoleon Bonaparte nearly two centuries before!

From Quiz What's In Your Portmanteau?

Answer: Eyeliner worn by guys

Take a guy, put on some eyeliner, and you've got guyliner. Notable guyliner wearers include Capt. Jack Sparrow (played by Johnny Depp in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" movies), musician Pete Wentz and comedian Russell Brand. And guys, when you buy your guyliner, don't forget your "manscara" ("man" plus "mascara")!

From Quiz Put the words in the blender. Find strange results

Answer: The time in life when people get old and constantly retell stories.

The two words that form this blend are "anecdote" which is a short story and "dotage" which is the onset of senility. Older people are popularly supposed to be in the habit of constantly retelling the same stories to anyone who will listen.

From Quiz Blended Words

Answer: Slurve

Slurve is a type of baseball pitch that is a slider that curves, a combination of slider and curve ball. Slurve can be used to fool hitter to think the ball is coming down the middle but then ball gently drops, causing a hitter to swing and miss. Notable slurve pitchers include Stephen Strasburg, Jose Fernandez, Kerry Wood, and Craig Kimbrel. Cy Young is the earliest known pitcher to utilize a slurve.

From Quiz Portmanteaux I Have Known

Answer: Apricot

Pluots are a combination of plums and apricots, with plum the dominating flavour. It's also possible to buy Aprium trees...the main flavour in these is apricot.

From Quiz What's In Your Portmanteau?

Answer: Muppet

Jim Henson first began creating Muppets in the 1950s, but they weren't well known until they became part of the children's television series "Sesame Street", which premiered in 1969. For years he explained that the term "Muppet" came from "marionette" and "puppet", but in a 1983 interview Jim Henson said "Muppet" was just a word they had come up with.

From Quiz Blended Words

Answer: Wholphin

Wholphin is a hybrid species obtained when a whale mates with a dolphin, specifically a male false killer whale and female bottlenose dolphin. Both whales and dolphins (therefore wholphins) are cetaceans, which is a class of sea mammals, meaning they have lungs (not gills) and they get pregnant as offspring grows inside them. Wholphin is extremely rare in the ecosystem.

From Quiz Portmanteaux I Have Known

Answer: Permafrost

It's estimated that approximately one-fifth of the earth's land surface is permafrost; in fact as much as 85% of Alaska's subsoil is 'permanently frosted'.

From Quiz What's In Your Portmanteau?

Answer: calm down, unwind, be cool

"Chill" (or "chill out") is combined with "relax" to form "chillax". Since "chill out" and "relax" essentially mean the same thing, this almost sounds like one of those occasions where your brain can't decide which word to use so it combines them. Either that or you *really* want to emphasize what you're saying.

From Quiz Put the words in the blender. Find strange results

Answer: "transfer" and "resistor"

A "transistor" is a small semi-conducting device used to magnify electric currents as previously found in portable radios. Nowadays silicon chips take the same idea and makes the device even smaller.

From Quiz Blended Words

Answer: Actventure & Actionventure & Acture

Actionventure or actventure is a fusion film genre that combines combatic elements of action with travelling assets of adventure. Actventure films typically plot about a protagonist exploring and finding objects in several, usually exotic places while fighting the foes along the way. Examples of actventure film franchises are "Indiana Jones", "National Treasure" and "Mad Max".

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