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单词 portmanteau
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portmanteaun.

Brit. /pɔːtˈmantəʊ/, U.S. /ˌpɔrtmænˈtoʊ/, /pɔrtˈmæntoʊ/
Inflections: Plural portmanteaus, portmanteaux.
Forms:

α. 1500s portemanteau, 1500s portmanteawe, 1500s portmanteo, 1500s portmantieu, 1500s portmantuo, 1500s–1600s portmantew, 1500s– portmanteau, 1600s portemantue, 1600s portmanto, 1600s portmantoe, 1600s portmantu, 1600s portmantue; also Scottish pre-1700 portemanteow, pre-1700 portemantew, pre-1700 portmanteaw, pre-1700 portmantiou, pre-1700 portmantuo.

β. 1500s–1800s portmantua.

γ. 1500s– portmantle (now chiefly English regional and Scottish), 1600s portmantile, 1600s– portmantel (now rare, chiefly Scottish), 1700s portmantell, 1800s portmantillo, 1800s– poortmankle (English regional (Berkshire)).

δ. 1600s portmanque, 1600s portmante, 1600s portmantick, 1600s (1700s– Scottish) portmanty; Irish English 1800s portmantiey, 1800s– portmanty.

ε. 1600s portmanteam, 1600s portmanten, 1600s portmantium, 1600s portmantuan.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French portemanteau.
Etymology: < Middle French, French portemanteau officer who carries the mantle of a person in a high position (1507 in Middle French), case or bag for carrying clothing (1547), clothes rack (1640) < porte- porte- comb. form + manteau manteau n.With β. forms compare mantua n.2 and discussion at that entry. In γ. forms apparently influenced by mantle n. With the form portmanty (see δ. forms) compare manty n. Compare also pockmanty n.
1. A case or bag for carrying clothing and other belongings when travelling; (originally) one of a form suitable for carrying on horseback; (now esp.) one in the form of a stiff leather case hinged at the back to open into two equal parts.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > luggage > travelling bag > hand-held
mailc1275
clothesack1393
cloak-bagc1540
portmanteau1553
valance?a1562
pockmanty1575
cap-case1577
cloak-bearer1580
night baga1618
valisea1630
toilet1656
Roger1665
shirt case1823
weekend case1827
carpet-bag1830
holdall1851
handbag1859
suitcase1873
sample case1875
gripsack1877
case1879
grip1879
Gladstone (bag)1882
traveller1895
vanity-case1913
luggage1915
revelation1923
two-suiter1923
overnight bag1925
one-suiter1933
suiter1933
overnight case1934
Samsonite1939
flight bag1943
Pullman1946
grip-bag1958
overnighter1959
carry-on1960
Vuitton1975
go bag1991
α.
1553 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1913) X. 197 vj quarteris bukrum to be ane portemantew to my lorde governour.
1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 1040 The sauor of this fleshe brought a woulfe to him, that caried away the fleshe and the portmantew it was wrapt in.
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes A cloke-bag, a male, a port-manteawe.
1635 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Donzella Desterrada 124 Taking..from off his saddle-bow a portmanteau, and out of it some victuals.
1689 D. Granville in Remains (1861) I. 76 They search'd my portmantoe and plundered me of a bagg of mony.
1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle II. xxxix. 9 Their trunks and portmanteaus must be carried to the custom-house.
1792 C. Smith Desmond II. xxx My clothes, about which I had never thought, were inquired for in the chaise, and the small portmanteau I had was produced untouched.
1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt I. i. 35 Feeling in his pockets for the keys of his portmanteaus.
1894 Country Gentlemen's Catal. 152 Solid leather portmanteaux, ladies' dress baskets.
1928 J. Devanny Dawn Beloved ix. 107 Dawn..opened his old portmanteau and took out the things.
1994 R. Davies Cunning Man 421 Small wonder that in the portmanteau strapped to the back of the motor-bike there was always a Baby Bear of the cheapest rye.
β. 1581 Deposition 14 Sept. in Hereford Municipal Docs. 1519–93 (Herefordshire Archives BG 1 1/17/3, MS 56) Beinge examined wheather he broughte some portmantua to this citie or not confessethe he dyd bringe one..[and] saiethe mr maior..knowethe as well as he what is in yt.1585 Protocol Bk. W. Cumming (Edinb. Reg. House) f. 75 Ane sadyll with ryding geyr with port mantua.1601–2 in T. G. Law Archpriest Controv. (1898) II. 41 They sent theyr portmantuas to St. Paules monastery.a1641 T. Heywood Captives (1953) ii. i. 28 A budget..or portmantua, w[hi]ch included: all the bawdes wealth.1654 Gen. Monck Let. 29 July in C. H. Firth Scotl. & Protectorate 152 Atholl's portmantua.1750 M. Clancy Sharper 47 (stage direct.) Enter Sawny..carrying a Portmantua.1765 H. Timberlake Mem. 9 One of them..actually fell, letting my portmantua into the water.1782 Royal Gaz. 8 May 1/2 (advt.) He has upon hands a few neat Gentlemen and Lady's Saddles, bridles, portmantuas, [etc.].1807 J. D. Burk Bethlem Gabor ii. 18 Frederick Henry Bergamotte..for whom so many bright eyes vainly languish! hundred billet doux in my portmantua.1852 W. M. Thackeray Hist. Henry Esmond v. 95 Mr. Esmond bade his servant pack a portmantua and get horses.γ. ?1602Portmantle [see sense 3a]. 1612 North's Plutarch 977 The flesh and the portmantle [1595 -mantew] it was wrapt in.1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iv. ii. 181 The spoiles of Cardenio's Port-Mantle.1703 G. Farquhar Twin-rivals iii. ii. 33 What makes you sit upon the Port-Mantel, Teague?1778 Jrnls. Continental Congr. 1774–89 (Libr. of Congr.) (1908) X. 312 For each trooper..a saddle, halters, curry-comb and brush, portmantle, picket cord, and pack saddle.1821 W. Scott Kenilworth I. viii. 219 The small portmantle which contained his necessaries.1883 E. Pennell-Elmhirst Cream Leics. 189 The portmantillos that in these days..fill up the small of each belted second horseman's back.1924 J. H. Wilkinson Leeds Dial. Gloss. 169 Poortmantle, portmanteau.δ. 1614Port-manque [see sense 3a]. a1670 J. Hacket Scrinia Reserata (1693) i. 160 Till the Messenger with the Port-mantick came from Rome.1680 in 12th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1890) App. vii. 394 Paid for a new large portmante 16s.1686 London Gaz. No. 2100/4 [They] had with them a Leathern Port~manty.1897 C. M. Campbell Deilie Jock 259 We..got oor portmantys and booked to Worcester.ε. a1632 T. Taylor God's Judgem. (1642) ii. v. 73 Feeling what weight the portmantuan had.1682 in Early Rec. Town of Providence (Rhode Island) (1894) VI. 80 In ye out Celler, i. Portmantium..In ye Portmanteam, 3 Cases of leather.1698 R. Ferguson View of Ecclesiastick in Socks & Buskins Pref. He..is degraded to come behind with the Portmanten.
2. An officer or aide responsible for bearing the robes of the king of France. Obsolete. rare.
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society > authority > office > holder of office > official of royal or great household > [noun] > officers of French royal household
portmanteau1597
King of the Ribalds1599
prevost de l'hostelc1650
1597 G. Gilpin Let. 12 Feb. in Notes & Queries (1899) 30 Dec. 537/1 Here is arrived from the King of France a porte-manteau, who brought the ratification under the great seal of the agreements and treaty.
3. figurative.
a. Any container, receptacle, etc.; a repository or mixture of a number of disparate ideas, arguments, etc.
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the mind > possession > supply > storage > [noun] > place where anything is or may be stored > specifically of immaterial things
arkc1175
garnerc1175
cellara1387
aumbry1477
vein1533
armourya1586
arsenal1593
portmanteau?1602
repository1639
reservoir1690
toy shop1714
?1602 Narcissus (MS Bodl. Rawl. poet. 212) (1893) 11 O thou whose breast..is..prudences portmantle.
1614 A. S. in T. Overbury et al. Wife now Widdow Answer to Court Newes sig. G That the soules of women and louers are wrapt vp in the port manque of their senses.
1641 R. Greville Disc. Nature Episcopacie i. iv. 11 As sure to finde the Spirit in a conge d'eslire, as others not long since, in the Tridentine Port-mantile.
1900 Westm. Gaz. 28 Apr. 3/1 The demand for the franchise was..a kind of portmanteau into which all our grievances could be stuffed and dispatched to Pretoria.
1993 Insight 11 Oct. 28/2 The portmanteau of inanities and false pieties that they unveiled..will lead to nothing more than a few more tons of bureaucracy.
b. A word formed by blending sounds from two or more distinct words and combining their meanings (see also Compounds 2a). Also more generally: a term or phrase which encompasses two or more meanings (see also Compounds 2b).
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > morphology > word-formation > [noun] > compounding > blending > word formed by
portmanteau1871
portmantologism1887
telescope word1890
blend1909
1871 ‘L. Carroll’ Through Looking-glass vi. 127 Well, ‘slithy’ means ‘lithe and slimy’... You see it's like a portmanteau—there are two meanings packed up into one word.]
1871 ‘L. Carroll’ Through Looking-glass vi. 129 ‘Mimsy’ is ‘flimsy and miserable’ (there's another portmanteau for you).
1991 Internat. Affairs 67 230 The term ‘regional security’ is usually used as a portmanteau to cover at least three different elements of security.
c. Linguistics. A morph which represents two or more morphemes simultaneously. See also Compounds 2c.
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1947 Language 23 339 Some may..prefer to reinterpret portmanteaus as bimorphic as well as bimorphemic, even though to do so one must extend the definition of ‘morph’ to cover elements of other than overt phonemic content.
1950 Language 26 84 If we find it more convenient to regard these forms as single morphs, we must at least take them to be portmanteaus, and not completely arbitrary ones.
1971 D. Kastovsky Stud. in Morphology—Aspects of Eng. & German Verb Inflection 17 [In German verbs] person and number always occur together and thus form a complex morphemic unit (portmanteau).
1992 A. M. Zwicky in R. Levine Formal Gram. vi. 362 There are morphosyntactically problematic phenomena—including..some of the things that have been labelled as compounds, incorporations, serializations, phrasal affixes, bound word clitics, and (syntactic) portmanteaus—that resist any simple analysis in which each W of syntax instantiates a single lexeme and each lexeme is instantiated by a single W.
4. A clothes rack, an arrangement of pegs to hang clothes on. Obsolete.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > [noun] > rack for
fripperya1625
portmanteau1728
clothes-rack1857
rack1889
valet1942
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Port-Manteau, a piece of Joiner's Work, fasten'd to the Wall, in a Wardrobe, Armory, &c. proper for the hanging on of Cloaks, Hats, &c.
1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre II. x. 272 It took the light, held it aloft and surveyed the garments pendant from the portmanteau.

Compounds

C1.
a.
portmanteau maker n.
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1844 Census 1844 Occup. Abstr. Eng. & Wales: Gaols 67 in Parl. Papers 1844 XXVII. 1 (table) Portmanteau-maker.
1931 Times 4 Sept. 7/2 William Marshall, 43, portmanteau maker.
1994 Independent (Nexis) 26 Apr. 22 Rossiter was born in 1831 in Holborn, the son of a portmanteau maker.
portmanteau manufacturer n.
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1831 Times 24 Feb. 4/3 Mr. Fountain's, portmanteau manufacturer, 20, Mount-street.
1885 List of Subscribers Exchange Syst. (United Telephone Co.) (ed. 6) 213 (heading) Trunk and Portmanteau Manufacturers.
1913 Times 16 May 3/3 Messrs. Mason and Whitehead, portmanteau manufacturers.
2003 Yorks. Post (Nexis) 18 Aug. Just up the street from our home..there were engravers, horn-cutters, stage carpenters, canvassers, portmanteau manufacturers and inspectors of Weights and Measures.
portmanteau robbery n.
ΚΠ
1900 Westm. Gaz. 22 Aug. 5/3 A series of portmanteau robberies from the roofs of four-wheeled cabs.
portmanteau thief n.
ΚΠ
1900 Westm. Gaz. 22 Aug. 5/3 (heading) Portmanteau thieves in the West End.
portmanteau trunk n.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > luggage > travelling boxes
trussing coffera1387
lode-malea1400
gardeviance1459
trussing mail1485
trussing chest1540
trunk1609
portmanteau trunk1683
hair-trunk1693
mail-trunka1726
trunkie1728
trunk-mail1771
imperial1773
cedar chest1775
Noah's Ark1803
wardrobe trunk1815
dress case1819
yakdan1824
pitara1828
bullock-trunk1844
dress basket1857
Saratoga trunk1857
Saratoga1863
black jack1885
innovation trunk1912
1683 Verulam MSS (Hist. MSS. Comm. 1906) 210 For a portmantue trunk, 0. 11. 0.
1760 J. Bradstreet Let. 6 July in B. J. Lossing Life & Times P. Schuyler (1872) I. xi. 179 All my private affairs are in my leather portmanteau trunk.
1819 M. Edgeworth Let. 2 June (1971) 210 The boxes and small portmanteau trunk..have not arrived.
2001 San Francisco Chron. (Nexis) 14 Oct. (Mag.) 14 Women arrived at the gangplank of, say, the S.S. Lurline laden with portmanteau trunks, train cases and hatboxes.
b.
portmanteau-gelding n. Obsolete rare a gelded baggage horse.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by purpose used for > [noun] > pack-horse
summer?a1300
bottle-horsea1414
mail horse1440
sumpter horsec1450
sommier1481
packhorse?a1500
carriage horse1500
sumpter1526
sumpture1567
load-horse1568
loader1600
baggage-horse1640
led horse1662
portmanteau-gelding1694
portmanteau-horse1770
pack pony1850
bât-horse1863
pack1866
1694 London Gaz. No. 2996/4 A bright bay Portmantua-Gelding, about 8l. price.
portmanteau-horse n. Obsolete a baggage horse.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by purpose used for > [noun] > pack-horse
summer?a1300
bottle-horsea1414
mail horse1440
sumpter horsec1450
sommier1481
packhorse?a1500
carriage horse1500
sumpter1526
sumpture1567
load-horse1568
loader1600
baggage-horse1640
led horse1662
portmanteau-gelding1694
portmanteau-horse1770
pack pony1850
bât-horse1863
pack1866
1770 G. Washington Let. 5 Oct. (1855) II. xiv. 516 Lodged at Leesburg, distant from Mount Vernon about forty-five miles. Here my portmanteau horse failed.
1772 T. Nugent tr. J. F. de Isla Hist. Friar Gerund I. 438 Mounted on a raw-boned,..hollow-eyed, pyballed portmanteau-horse.
portmanteau-saddle n. Obsolete a saddle with a section behind the rider for carrying a portmanteau or other baggage.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > saddle > types of saddle
mail-saddle1360
trotter-saddle1381
panel1393
loadsaddle1397
packsaddle1398
limber-saddle1480
pillion1480
side-saddle1493
steel saddle1503
pilgate1511
mail pillowc1532
stock-saddle1537
pad1556
sunk1568
trunk-saddle1569
soda1586
mail pillion1586
running saddle1596
Scotch saddle1596
postilion saddle1621
pad-saddle1622
portmanteau-saddle1681
watering saddle1681
cart-saddle1692
demi-pique1695
crook-saddle1700
saddle pad1750
recado1825
aparejo1844
mountain saddle1849
somerset1851
pilch1863
cowboy saddle1880
sawbuck (pack)saddle1881
western saddle1883
cross-saddle1897
centre-fire1921
McClellan1940
poley1957
1681 London Gaz. No. 1583/4 A coloured leather Portmantle Saddle, Blew fring in the seat.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 345/1 A Portmantle Saddle hath a Cantle behind the seat to keep the Portmantle..off the Riders back.
1796 J. Hunter Compl. Dict. Farriery & Horsemanship at Saddle There are several saddles in use, as the running saddle, which is very small and light, with round skirts;..the portmanteau saddle, the war saddle, the pack saddle, &c.
C2. attributive. In extended use, with the sense ‘that into which things are packed together’.
a. Designating a word formed by blending sounds from two or more others and combining their meanings (esp. in portmanteau word); of or relating to such a word. Also: designating a phrase or expression formed by combining elements from others. See also sense 3b.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being combined > [noun] > a combination > of two different things of the same kind
portmanteau1877
1877 Trans. Philol. Soc. 1875–6 183 Manx etymologists are rather fond of what Lewis Carroll calls ‘portmanteau words’.
1882 Cornhill Mag. July 25 They admirably illustrate the portmanteau word ‘slithy’ in the Jabberwocky poem.
1896 Punch 1 Aug. 58/2 To be fashionable nowadays we must ‘brunch’. Truly an excellent portmanteau word, introduced, by the way, last year, by Mr. Guy Beringer, in the now defunct Hunter's Weekly, and indicating a combined breakfast and lunch.
1902 Westm. Gaz. 10 June 2/2 As a fact Lord Rosebery was guilty of what we may call a ‘portmanteau’ quotation, in that he combined into one what Lord Salisbury said about Ireland and South Africa.
1905 Westm. Gaz. 15 Aug. 4/2 It is a wise bird that will not foul its own nest, if this portmanteau proverb may be allowed.
1927 Observer 6 Feb. 19/5 The Fijians had no words for bull or cow and now have only one portmanteau word, ‘bulumacau’.
1972 Amer. Speech 1968 43 201 He was particularly concerned with..portmanteau forms of the sort illustrated by motel for ‘motor hotel’.
1990 B. Gill N.Y. Life 335 Everyone said what a pleasing occasion it was: a true embodiment of Joyce's portmanteau pun, ‘funferall’.
2002 A. Metcalf Predicting New Words ii. 33 Chortle and galumph—both of them what Humpty Dumpty calls portmanteau words—are both in use today.
b. Designating a generalized description or category, or a word or expression which has a generalized meaning.
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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > meaning of linguistic unit > [adjective] > having general meaning
portmanteau1909
1909 Daily Chron. 18 Feb. 4/7 You may notice the same ‘portmanteau’ descriptions of persons wanted by the police. They would fit a dozen men in every hundred yards of London.
1949 Times Lit. Suppl. 10 June 376/4 The word ‘baroque’..has come to be accepted as a convenient portmanteau term which covers the music composed between 1580 and 1750 and the plastic arts of an era which begins and ends slightly earlier.
1955 Times 12 May 7/3 The phrase Britanniarum omnium, which had appeared on the coinage since 1902, was discontinued from the beginning of 1954. The words were a portmanteau expression designed as a free rendering in Latin of ‘The British Dominions beyond the seas’.
1957 Listener 18 July 86/2 The Act of 1897..is one of those portmanteau measures under which a person can be charged with any action.
1962 Listener 19 Apr. 674/1 The concept, or rather the concepts, of ‘culture’. This portmanteau word has been indispensable to intellectuals for 100 years at least.
1977 J. Weeks Coming Out i. 14 ‘Sodomy’ was a portmanteau term for any forms of sex that did not have conception as their aim, from homosexual acts to birth control.
1990 Times Educ. Suppl. 26 Oct. (Review section) r1/4 Those of you with a good teacher's taste for precision will be fuming by this stage because of my constant use of a portmanteau phrase, which tells you everything and nothing, without defining it.
2003 A. Moore Realism & Christian Faith i. 8 ‘Theological realism’ has become a portmanteau phrase to describe what classical orthodox Christianity upholds and what non-realists..oppose.
c. Linguistics. Designating a morph which represents two or more morphemes simultaneously. See also sense 3c.
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1947 C. F. Hockett in Lang. 23 333 Portmanteau morphs, which belong simultaneously to two (or, theoretically, more) morphemes, and have simultaneously the meanings of both.
1953 C. E. Bazell Ling. Form 54 Furthermore this terminology renders superfluous the family of subtractive morphs, zero-morphs, and portmanteau-morphs.
1965 Language 41 365 The sentences would have no string structure at all if transformations combined morphemes from separate elementary sentences into novel product-morphemes (portmanteau blends).
1972 R. R. K. Hartmann & F. C. Stork Dict. Lang. & Linguistics 180/1 Portmanteau morph, a single morph which stands for two morphemes. The best known example is French au |o| ‘to the’ which represents à + le.
1987 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 32 175 Linell..notes that ‘the morpholexical rules that spell out portmanteau morphs are..arranged in terms of systems where strong categories form the basis of united rule schemas’.
2011 W. Danks Arabic Verb p. xvii The complex nature of Arabic morphology, including broken plurals, discontinuous morphs and portmanteau morphs.
d. Designating a film featuring several individual stories, typically linked by a common theme or incident, and often told within a story which serves as a framing device; designating such works as a genre. Cf. anthology n. Compounds 2, omnibus adj. 2.In quot. 1953 reviewing Altri Tempi (1952), an Italian portmanteau comedy-drama.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > a film > type of film > [adjective] > other types
costumed1851
foreign language1904
first run1910
Keystone1912
photodramatic1914
serial1915
coming of age1919
edge-of-your-seat1922
psychodramatic1927
omnibus1928
straight1936
low-budget1937
no-budget1937
screwball1937
Ealing1939
blockbusting1943
private eye1946
film noir1952
white telephone1952
portmanteau1953
uncut1953
anthology1955
three-D1955
Hammer1958
noir1958
co-production1959
kitchen sink1959
kidult1960
docudrama1961
cinéma vérité1963
maudit1963
filmi1965
indie1968
triple-X1969
XXX1969
drama-documentary1970
cheapie1973
gross-out1973
high concept1973
chopsocky1974
hard R1974
buddy movie1975
sci-fi1977
mondo1979
hack-and-slash1981
microbudget1981
hack-and-slay1982
slice-and-dice1982
fly on the wall1983
psychotronic1983
noirish1985
Mad Max1986
stoner1987
bonkbusting1993
straight to DVD1997
1953 Monthly Film Bull. Jan. 64/1 As with previous portmanteau films, the quality of execution is extremely uneven.
1972 Sight & Sound Autumn 240/4 Another portmanteau horror entertainment from Amicus.
1996 Glasgow Herald 31 May 39/2 Tonight's cheap and cheerful British portmanteau chiller, the unimprovably titled Dr Terror's House Of Horrors (1964).
2017 Guardian (Nexis) 5 Oct. (Film section) Ghost Stories is..an anthology of creepy supernatural tales in the intensely English tradition of Amicus portmanteau movies from the 1960s.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

portmanteauv.

Brit. /pɔːtˈmantəʊ/, U.S. /ˌpɔrtmænˈtoʊ/, /pɔrtˈmæntoʊ/
Inflections: Past tense and past participle portmanteaud, portmanteaued;
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: portmanteau n.
Etymology: < portmanteau n.
transitive. To combine (two or more ideas, proposals, etc.); to combine elements and meanings of (two or more words) to form a single word. Also intransitive.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being combined > combine [verb (transitive)]
compoundc1384
combind1477
consolidate1511
combinea1535
conjoin1554
consociate1566
associate1578
mingle1587
symbolize1590
compack1605
cojoina1616
to run into ——1640
to put together1651
amalgamate1802
integrate1802
conferruminate1826
amalgam1827
synthetize1828
synthesize1830
portmanteau1902
team1939
synchronize1973
1902 Westm. Gaz. 28 May 2/2 We are amused at the attempt to portmanteau into one (as Lewis Carroll would say) the Education Bill and the Bread Tax.
1906 Daily Chron. 22 Mar. 6/7 Hotten's Slang Dictionary..has only two [words] for threepence—‘thrums’ and ‘thrups’—neither of which will portmanteau with ‘telegram’ comfortably.
1934 W. Lewis Men without Art i. ii. 43 He will Joyce for a bit, but merely to the extent of innocently portmanteauing a few words just to show he is on the right side.
1967 G. F. Fiennes I tried to run Railway v. 58 Chingford, Enfield, Hertford and Bishops Stortford (portmanteaud as the ‘Chenford’).
2000 S. R. Wilk Medusa ii. 28 When the story was committed to writing,..all versions were preserved, portmanteaued into one single myth.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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