Thursday, January 03, 2008

Portmanteau

  • spork (spoon + fork)
  • guesstimate (guess + estimate)
  • smog (smoke + fog)
  • brunch (breakfast + lunch)
  • diabesity (diabetes + obesity)
  • genome (gene + chromosome)
  • netizen (internet + citizen)
  • affluenza* (affluence + influenza)

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*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affluenza
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