- 1對開式大型手提箱（不是「混成詞」那個意思）
A portmanteau is a very large suitcase that opens into two halves, like a book. used this kind of case a hundred years ago and packed clothes in both sides, then shut it with clasps. The word is French in feel and a little old-fashioned for the object; today most people just say suitcase. It started in French as a name for a coat stand — literally “carries-cloak” — and then named the big case that carried your clothes. Though actually English later used the same picture for words: a portmanteau word is two words packed into one, like brunch from breakfast and lunch. In schools that second meaning is now the one you hear most. This entry is the suitcase.
組成From French portemanteau, first “coat stand”: porte (“carries”) + manteau (“cloak, coat”).
同家族的字
- portersomeone who carries, from the same “carry” side
- mantlea cloak — same root as French manteau
原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
portmanteaunoun/pɔːtˈmæn.təʊ/
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A large travelling case usually made of leather, and opening into two equal sections.
- A Rover tooke him unprepared, / Search't his Port-mantua, bound him faſter, / And ſent him naked to his Maſter: […]
- Rodolphus therefore finding such an earnest Invitation, embrac'd it with thanks, and with his Servant and Portmanteau, went to Don Juan's; where they first found good Stabling for their Horses, and afterwards as good Provision for themselves.
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human-scienceslinguisticssciencesA word formed by putting two words together and thereby their meaning.
- Well, ‘slithy’ means ‘lithe and slimy.’ ‘Lithe’ is the same as ‘active.’ You see it’s like a portmanteau⸺there are two meanings packed up into one word.
- Well then, ‘mimsy’ is ‘flimsy and miserable’ (there’s another portmanteau for you).
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A portmanteau film.
- We're so bombarded with images, it's a struggle to preserve our imaginations.' In response, he's turned to cinema, commissioning 11 film-makers to contribute to a portmanteau film, entitled '11'09"01' and composed of short films each running 11 minutes, nine seconds and one frame.
- His long-awaited portmanteau, which premiered in Cannes on Monday, is the most Anderson of all Anderson films. It's Anderson distilled, Anderson squared, Anderson to the nth degree.
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datedA schoolbag.
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archaicA hook on which to hang clothing.
- But before I started that long and rather far-fetched and not frightfully original digression, what I meant to say quite simply was that there are no portmanteaux to be examined here because the clientele of this café, ladies and gentlemen, does not sit down.
portmanteauadj/pɔːtˈmæn.təʊ/
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human-scienceslinguisticssciencesMade by combining two (or more) words, stories, etc., in the manner of a linguistic portmanteau.
- The overall narrator of this portmanteau story - for Dickens co-wrote it with five collaborators on his weekly periodical, All the Year Round - expresses deep, rational scepticism about the whole business of haunting.
portmanteauverb/pɔːtˈmæn.təʊ/
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To create a portmanteau word.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。