# 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:** 2
**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, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/triple-portmanteaus/714977/21 "2015-03-14T17:53:42Z")
> [@engineer\_comp\_geek](#): > > I thought that came from Feminist + Nazi (2 words)? Nazi = National Nocialist Edit: Actually a dubious portmanteau, I grant you that. 🆒 ---
**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, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/triple-portmanteaus/714977/22 "2015-03-14T18:19:15Z")
> [@Donnerwetter](#): > > Nazi = National Nocialist > > Edit: > > Actually a dubious portmanteau, I grant you that. 🆒 It’s hilarious that you edited that but still left “Nocialist” instead of “Socialist”. 😉 I see where the unexpected fanbase of MY LITTLE PONY, who portmanteau themselves as “bronies”, has a well-attended convention called “BronyCon”. ---
**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, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/triple-portmanteaus/714977/23 "2015-03-14T18:27:57Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > It’s hilarious that you edited that but still left “Nocialist” instead of “Socialist”. 😉 :smack: :o ---
**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, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/triple-portmanteaus/714977/24 "2015-03-14T19:12:51Z")
Remember when Tiger Woods responded to Oprah by describing himself as _Cablinasian_: part Caucasian, part Black, part Indian, part Asian? ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2015, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/triple-portmanteaus/714977/25 "2015-03-14T19:14:13Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Necco Wafers, made by the New England Confectionary Company More of an acronym than a portmanteau. But how about the Manhattan neighborhoods of Tribeca (for Triangle Below Canal Street) and Nolita (for North of Little Italy)? ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2015, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/triple-portmanteaus/714977/26 "2015-03-14T19:27:00Z")
turducken has a turd in it? Blech. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2015, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/triple-portmanteaus/714977/27 "2015-03-14T19:48:40Z")
At least a couple New York City neighborhoods qualify, most notably Tribeca, from “Triangle Below Canal”. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2015, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/triple-portmanteaus/714977/28 "2015-03-14T19:59:08Z")
From Wiki: > [@](#): > > The name Pakistan literally means “Land of the Pure” in Urdu and Persian. It was coined in 1933 as Pakstan by Choudhry Rahmat Ali, a Pakistan Movement activist, who published it in his pamphlet Now or Never, using it as an acronym (“thirty million Muslim brethren who live in PAKSTAN”) referring to the names of the five northern regions of the British Raj: Punjab, Afghania, Kashmir, Sindh, and Baluchistan". The letter i was incorporated to ease pronunciation and form the linguistically correct and meaningful name. a backronym country name, and Baluchistan is the first season Professor and Mary Ann of it, since “-stan” means “land of the” ---
**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, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/triple-portmanteaus/714977/29 "2015-03-14T21:37:11Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > But how about the Manhattan neighborhoods of Tribeca (for Triangle Below Canal Street) and Nolita (for North of Little Italy)? How about the Delmarva Peninsula? ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2015, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/triple-portmanteaus/714977/30 "2015-03-14T21:58:36Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > But how about the Manhattan neighborhoods of Tribeca (for Triangle Below Canal Street) and Nolita (for North of Little Italy)? > [@Bayard](#): > > At least a couple New York City neighborhoods qualify, most notably Tribeca, from “Triangle Below Canal”. Damn, I swear your post wasn’t there when I posted. Sorry… ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2015, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/triple-portmanteaus/714977/31 "2015-03-14T23:53:09Z")
> [@Bayard](#): > > Damn, I swear your post wasn’t there when I posted. Sorry… FTR, it used to be that the Shanghai cuisine restaurants were clustered on Bayard in Chinatown, south of Nolita and predating it by a century. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2015, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/triple-portmanteaus/714977/32 "2015-03-14T23:55:26Z")
> [@Wendell\_Wagner](#): > > [Turducken - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turducken) Pffft. ---
**Author:** ![Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellis_Aponte_Jr)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2015, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/triple-portmanteaus/714977/33 "2015-03-15T00:03:44Z")
> [@Bayard](#): > > At least a couple New York City neighborhoods qualify, most notably Tribeca, from “Triangle Below Canal”. In Brooklyn, “BoCoCa” for Boerum Hill/Cobble Hill/Carroll Gardens, not that anyone actually says the word. ---
**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 15, 2015, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/triple-portmanteaus/714977/34 "2015-03-15T00:27:24Z")
> [@Leo\_Bloom](#): > > Pffft. [Pfft](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_stuffed_camel) ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2015, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/triple-portmanteaus/714977/35 "2015-03-15T00:50:32Z")
> [@Leo\_Bloom](#): > > FTR, it used to be that the Shanghai cuisine restaurants were clustered on Bayard in Chinatown, south of Nolita and predating it by a century. I lived in NYC for a while and worked in Lower Manhattan. I sorta recall Bayard Street, although that’s not what inspired my user name. ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Downtown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Mr\_Downtown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Downtown)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2015, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/triple-portmanteaus/714977/36 "2015-03-15T04:11:26Z")
My hometown of Texarkana: TEXas, ARKansas, and louisiANA. ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2015, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/triple-portmanteaus/714977/37 "2015-03-15T06:09:58Z")
How about [celebutard](http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/celebutard)? ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2015, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/triple-portmanteaus/714977/38 "2015-03-15T08:00:01Z")
> [@Ignotus](#): > > engineer\_comp\_geek: > Turducken. > (turkey duck chicken) > > Which, to us Europeans, means? [A chicken stuffed into a duck stuffed into a turkey.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turducken) ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2015, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/triple-portmanteaus/714977/39 "2015-03-15T10:31:05Z")
In the Moskitia region of Honduras, there are about ten new “territorial councils” – sort of a combination of counties and Indian reservations. Each is named like “Pakistan”: triple, quadruple, and even quintuple portmanteaus of existing villages and other geographical features, usually ending in “-asta,” which means “organization” in Miskitu (IIRC). Examples are “Katainasta” and “Wamicliniasta”. (Map here – may not display on all devices: [http://www.prmapping.res.ku.edu/honduras.html](http://www.prmapping.res.ku.edu/honduras.html) ) ---
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Wiki sez [COINTELPRO](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO) _“(for COunter INTELligence PROgram) was a series of covert, and at times illegal, projects conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) aimed at surveying, infiltrating, discrediting, and disrupting domestic political organizations … operations under the official COINTELPRO label took place between 1956 and 1971. COINTELPRO tactics are still used to this day, and have been alleged to include discrediting targets through psychological warfare; smearing individuals and groups using forged documents and by planting false reports in the media; harassment; wrongful imprisonment; and illegal violence, including assassination.”_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/triple-portmanteaus/714977.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/triple-portmanteaus/714977.md?page=3)