Triple portmanteaus

[Donnerwetter]

I wonder if there are more portmanteaus that are made up of 3 words. Just yesterday, I read Grexident for the first time:

‘Grexident’: Germany warns Greece could leave euro by accident - live updates

'Grexident': Germany warns Greece could leave euro by accident - as it happened

What other examples are there?

(Please only portmanteaus that have actually been used before, not words which you have just created )

[Ignotus]

‘Grexident’: Germany warns Greece could leave euro by accident

How, exactly, does “Germany” factor into this neologism?
(Or, for that matter, “euro”?)

[Donnerwetter]

@Ignotus

How, exactly, does “Germany” factor into this neologism?
(Or, for that matter, “euro”?)

1. Greece
2. exit (i. e. leaving the eurozone)
3. accident (by accident, i. e. unplanned)

[engineer_comp_geek]

Turducken.

(turkey duck chicken)

[Ignotus]

1. Greece
2. exit (i. e. leaving the eurozone)
3. accident (by accident, i. e. unplanned)

I would read it as a portmanteau of “Greek” and “accident” - no hints of “ex”, “euro” or “Germany”.

I guess, if you know the etymology, there is an “ex” to be found somewhere in it. I wouldn’t say it’s obvious.

Still, it’s a good first try. Who can do even better?

[Ignotus]

engineer_comp_geek:
Turducken.
(turkey duck chicken)

Which, to us Europeans, means?

[RobDog]

Zomromcom.

e. g. Shaun of the Dead.

[Peter_Morris]

Benelux

[The_Other_Waldo_Pepper]

Feminazi?

[Wendell_Wagner]

Turducken

[Ignotus]

Today 11:38 AM
Wendell Wagner Turducken - Wikipedia

Looks great, but I think I would stick to the inner layers (never been much of a turkey fan…)

What about really technical stuff, like “diastereomere” (=diasteric stereoisomere)? Counts?

[The_Other_Waldo_Pepper]

I see that link also leads to a link for cherpumple, a cherry/apple/pumpkin pie.

[Donnerwetter]

@Ignotus

Looks great, but I think I would stick to the inner layers (never been much of a turkey fan…)

What about really technical stuff, like “diastereomere” (=diasteric stereoisomere)? Counts?

Let me quote the book of knowledge :

The definition overlaps with the grammatical term contraction, but a distinction can be made between a portmanteau and a contraction by noting that contractions are formed from words that would otherwise appear together in sequence, such as do and not, whereas a portmanteau word is formed by combining two or more existing words that all relate to a singular concept which the portmanteau describes. Portmanteaux should also be distinguished from compounds, which do not involve the truncation of parts of the stems of the blended words. For instance, starfish is a compound, not a portmanteau, of star and fish (a hypothetical portmanteau of these words might be stish).

[The_Other_Waldo_Pepper]

Nabisco, the national biscuit company?

[Ignotus]

What about** Rubisco **then?

(R(ib)u(los)bis(phosphate)c(arb)o(xygenase) in case anyone really cares?)

And yes, it was a joke

[Annie-Xmas]

Necco Wafers, made by the New England Confectionary Company

[pulykamell]

Going with the food examples, there’s also Peacotum: peach, apricot, and plum.

And the sporf: spoon, fork, knife.

[Jack_of_Words]

@Ignotus

1. Greece
2. exit (i. e. leaving the eurozone)
3. accident (by accident, i. e. unplanned)

I would read it as a portmanteau of “Greek” and “accident” - no hints of “ex”, “euro” or “Germany”.

I guess, if you know the etymology, there is an “ex” to be found somewhere in it. I wouldn’t say it’s obvious.

Still, it’s a good first try. Who can do even better?

It’s obvious to those of us in the UK who’ve been hearing “Grexit” for some time now. An accidental Grexit is, naturally, a Grexident

[Topologist]

Bloomfield, CT, where I grew up, had originally been called Wintonbury, which was a portmanteau of the names of three nearby towns: Windsor, Avon, and Simsbury. Many of us wished they had stuck with that name.

[engineer_comp_geek]

@The_Other_Waldo_Pepper

Feminazi?

I thought that came from Feminist + Nazi (2 words)?