• In linguistics, a blend—sometimes known, perhaps more narrowly, as a blend word, lexical blend, portmanteau (/pɔːrtˈmæntoʊ/ port-MAN-toh or /ˌpɔːr(t)mænˈtoʊ/...
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  • mixer or blender. Blend may also refer to: Blend word, a word formed from parts of other words Blend (album), a 1996 album by BoDeans Blend (cigarette), a...
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  • forming a word from two or more letters that represent the sounds of a word Blending (music), a technique used in instrument playing Blending (vocal technique)...
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  • Neologism (redirect from New word)
    Linguistics portal Aureation Backslang Blend word Language planning Mondegreen Morphology (linguistics) Nonce word Phono-semantic matching Portmanteau Protologism...
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  • psychokinesis. The term is a blend word of psi (in the sense of "psychic phenomena") and the -onics from electronics. The word "psionics" began as, and always...
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  • Calque (redirect from Loan blend)
    calque (/kælk/) or loan translation is a word or phrase borrowed from another language by literal word-for-word or root-for-root translation. When used...
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    Mansplaining (a blend word of man and the informal form splaining of the gerund explaining) is a pejorative term meaning "(for a man) to comment on or...
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  • A lexical blend is a complex word typically made of two word fragments. For example: smog is a blend of smoke and fog brunch is a blend of breakfast...
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  • apathetic anthropomorphic egg yolk. The name "Gudetama" is a portmanteau or blend word of the Japanese words for lazy (ぐでぐで, gudegude) and egg (たまご, tamago)...
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    western Europe: Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg. The name is a Blend word formed from joining the first few letters of each country's name and was...
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