# Triple portmanteaus **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 14, 2015, 9:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/triple-portmanteaus/714977 "2015-03-14T09:35:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Donnerwetter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Donnerwetter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Donnerwetter)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2015, 9:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/triple-portmanteaus/714977/1 "2015-03-14T09:35:24Z")
I wonder if there are more [portmanteaus](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portmanteau) 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](https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2015/mar/13/wolfgang-schauble)** > > Germany’s Wolfgang Schäuble warns Greece could leave the euro by accident and says the country must help itself out of financial crisis What other examples are there? (Please only portmanteaus that have actually been used before, not words which you have just created 😉 ) ---
**Author:** ![Ignotus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ecc23a/32.png) [@Ignotus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignotus)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2015, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/triple-portmanteaus/714977/2 "2015-03-14T09:48:06Z")
> [@](#): > > ‘Grexident’: Germany warns Greece could leave euro by accident How, exactly, does “Germany” factor into this neologism? (Or, for that matter, “euro”?) ---
**Author:** ![Donnerwetter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Donnerwetter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Donnerwetter)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2015, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/triple-portmanteaus/714977/3 "2015-03-14T10:04:57Z")
> [@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) ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2015, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/triple-portmanteaus/714977/4 "2015-03-14T10:17:19Z")
Turducken. (turkey duck chicken) ---
**Author:** ![Ignotus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ecc23a/32.png) [@Ignotus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignotus)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2015, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/triple-portmanteaus/714977/5 "2015-03-14T10:20:07Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Ignotus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ecc23a/32.png) [@Ignotus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignotus)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2015, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/triple-portmanteaus/714977/6 "2015-03-14T10:26:07Z")
engineer\_comp\_geek: Turducken. (turkey duck chicken) Which, to us Europeans, means? ---
**Author:** ![RobDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f07891/32.png) [@RobDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobDog)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2015, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/triple-portmanteaus/714977/7 "2015-03-14T10:26:36Z")
Zomromcom. e. g. Shaun of the Dead. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2015, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/triple-portmanteaus/714977/8 "2015-03-14T10:30:39Z")
Benelux ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2015, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/triple-portmanteaus/714977/9 "2015-03-14T10:35:16Z")
Feminazi? ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2015, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/triple-portmanteaus/714977/10 "2015-03-14T10:38:55Z")
> **[Turducken](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turducken)** > > Turducken is a dish consisting of a deboned chicken stuffed into a deboned duck, further stuffed into a deboned turkey. Outside of the United States and Canada, it is known as a three-bird roast.\[citation needed\] Gooducken is an English variant, replacing turkey with goose. > The word turducken is a portmanteau combining turkey, duck, and chicken. The dish is a form of engastration, which is a recipe method in which one animal is stuffed inside the gastric passage of another—twofold in this instan... ---
**Author:** ![Ignotus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ecc23a/32.png) [@Ignotus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignotus)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2015, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/triple-portmanteaus/714977/11 "2015-03-14T10:49:52Z")
> [@](#): > > Today 11:38 AM > Wendell Wagner [Turducken - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turducken) 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? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2015, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/triple-portmanteaus/714977/12 "2015-03-14T10:51:15Z")
I see that link also leads to a link for [cherpumple,](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherpumple) a cherry/apple/pumpkin pie. ---
**Author:** ![Donnerwetter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Donnerwetter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Donnerwetter)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2015, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/triple-portmanteaus/714977/13 "2015-03-14T10:55:07Z")
> [@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](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portmanteau)😉 : > [@](#): > > 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). ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2015, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/triple-portmanteaus/714977/14 "2015-03-14T11:12:20Z")
Nabisco, the national biscuit company? ---
**Author:** ![Ignotus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ecc23a/32.png) [@Ignotus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignotus)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2015, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/triple-portmanteaus/714977/15 "2015-03-14T13:51:18Z")
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 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2015, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/triple-portmanteaus/714977/16 "2015-03-14T14:23:32Z")
Necco Wafers, made by the New England Confectionary Company ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2015, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/triple-portmanteaus/714977/17 "2015-03-14T15:21:27Z")
Going with the food examples, there’s also [Peacotum](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peacotum): peach, apricot, and plum. And the [sporf](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sporf): spoon, fork, knife. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_of\_Words](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f6c823/32.png) [@Jack\_of\_Words](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_of_Words)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2015, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/triple-portmanteaus/714977/18 "2015-03-14T15:23:40Z")
> [@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 ---
**Author:** ![Topologist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/topologist/32/3208_2.png) [@Topologist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Topologist)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2015, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/triple-portmanteaus/714977/19 "2015-03-14T15:28:42Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2015, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/triple-portmanteaus/714977/20 "2015-03-14T17:50:24Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > Feminazi? I thought that came from Feminist + Nazi (2 words)? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/triple-portmanteaus/714977.md?page=2)