As Humpty Dumpty said, portmanteaus pack up two meanings inside one word. Conspiracy theorists like them: plandemic, scamdemic, Commiefornia, flu d’etat, Brussels bureauprats, Demoncrats, the lamestream media. Otherwise polite people talk about Tony Bliar, Microsoft Orifice and the Usanians. People have given their leaders nicknames for millennia – but we don't need to copy them. All of the following have been spotted in the wild.
portmantno (For clunky portmanteau that just doesn’t work. @Fritinancy)
conspirituality (Conservative spirituality)
somnambuscripting (Writing code when half asleep, AJB)
hopium (false hopes)
hibernacle
fleabay
agrannoying (TG)
biografiends (James Joyce)
blanditry (architectural – especially recladding an ugly old building in the latest style)
prosumer (thinks he's a cut above the ordinary shopper)
soapnesia (Amnesia conveniently suffered by soap actors. I had a daughter 18 years ago? Dagnabbit!)
salariat
copaganda
Malapropisms are called after Mrs Malaprop, a character in Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The Rivals. Her garbling of words produced something better than the original.
The Pigmillion effect (It's Pygmalion – see My Fair Lady.)
defliperator for defibrillator
monothealastic (monotheistic)
Psychic palm and terror card readings: speical offer! By Mrs Eli, Tell past, present and future.
us lesser morsels
Free Plasticine!
Post hoc ergo prompter hoc.
roast beef and criminalized onion relish
You can stop off and visit the Panthenon. (Cruise TV)
Her work is so enigmatic of the period! (Sotheby’s spokesman meant emblematic.)
Why do 'intense' or 'disorder' have to be despective? I love intensity and I definitely am disorder. (@adhdult – disrespective)
I must just Satanise my hands.
And now a word from our spouncer.
Everyone's so opinuated!
Pool closed because of carnivorous.
She wore an orchid pinned to her shoulder as a croissant. (corsage)
The event was a complete durbockle! (Say it in an American accent.)
He was a wolf in cheap clothing!
I bought my rolls from a partisan bakery.
Have you met my magnificent other?
"I attach a daft translation" I write to someone, with irreproachable professionalism. (@BelgianWaffling)
We decorated the walls with Deluxe paint.
a tilted family of multimillionaires
There's a big gap between the armature and the professional!
I’m a social piranha! (for pariah)
This computer is completely defunk!
Our soup is made from locally sourced indigents.
The protesters lobbed mazel tov cocktails.
More here, and links to the rest.
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