# What are your favorite portmanteau words? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 9, 2010, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-portmanteau-words/546123 "2010-07-09T17:54:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2010, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-portmanteau-words/546123/21 "2010-07-11T22:08:02Z")
What the wife and I call the huge, multi-winged Mega church in town. ---
**Author:** ![Silvorange](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@Silvorange](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silvorange)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-portmanteau-words/546123/22 "2010-07-12T00:49:42Z")
Pornado. I just heard that one today. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-portmanteau-words/546123/23 "2010-07-12T01:32:44Z")
Chortle. ---
**Author:** ![Perciful](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b38774/32.png) [@Perciful](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Perciful)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-portmanteau-words/546123/24 "2010-07-12T02:26:29Z")
Gerrymander ---
**Author:** ![susan\_foster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@susan\_foster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan_foster)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-portmanteau-words/546123/25 "2010-07-12T02:38:58Z")
Fugly. ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-portmanteau-words/546123/26 "2010-07-12T04:32:39Z")
Skort - love the word, hate the garment > [@Autolycus](#): > > Luvike - for that weird state when you really like somebody but you don’t love them. Do you mean “when you love somebody but you don’t really like them”? Because otherwise this state would be covered by, like, “like”. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-portmanteau-words/546123/27 "2010-07-12T05:56:18Z")
My current favorite is “cremains”, for cremated remains. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-portmanteau-words/546123/28 "2010-07-12T09:39:49Z")
My all-time favorite: Ignoranus. A person who is not only wrong, but an asshole as well. mmm ---
**Author:** ![Staggerlee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/staggerlee/32/3134_2.png) [@Staggerlee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Staggerlee)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-portmanteau-words/546123/29 "2010-07-12T10:04:55Z")
There was a young barman I saw on Friday, wearing a spangly gold strip in his hair, like a useless little sweatband - perhaps a retro 80s thing. I would call this either a ‘ **Twatiara** ’ or a ‘ **Crunt** ’. Though I expect I’ve coined neither. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-portmanteau-words/546123/30 "2010-07-12T13:35:39Z")
There is a fake (really!) town in between Orlando and Tampa called Orlampa. I think that’s adorable. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-portmanteau-words/546123/31 "2010-07-12T13:41:46Z")
Grrrr, all the money I plowed into real estate in Future Downtown Orlampa is now worthless :mad: ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-portmanteau-words/546123/32 "2010-07-12T14:01:55Z")
“Confuzzled” - a cross between confused and puzzled. ---
**Author:** ![Shark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/73ab20/32.png) [@Shark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shark)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-portmanteau-words/546123/33 "2010-07-12T20:37:04Z")
Ginormous is a fantabulous word ---
**Author:** ![MsChilePepper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@MsChilePepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsChilePepper)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-portmanteau-words/546123/34 "2010-07-13T06:34:09Z")
There are two neighborhoods of Seattle called Fremont and Ballard, which are next to each other. The area where the two neighborhoods overlap is known as “Frelard” and I giggle every time I hear it. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-portmanteau-words/546123/35 "2010-07-13T06:58:58Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > There is a fake (really!) town in between Orlando and Tampa called Orlampa. I think that’s adorable. You really weren’t kidding! [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlampa,\_Florida](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlampa,_Florida) ---
**Author:** ![EpicNonsense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c37758/32.png) [@EpicNonsense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EpicNonsense)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-portmanteau-words/546123/36 "2010-07-13T07:18:10Z")
Mangina ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Mondegreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/91b2a8/32.png) [@Lord\_Mondegreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Mondegreen)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-portmanteau-words/546123/37 "2010-07-13T07:28:17Z")
> [@spark240](#): > > An “elephant in the room” is already something everyone knows about. Maybe “irrelephant” is an elephant in the room which doesn’t really matter. Everybody knows about it, nobody talks about it, but at the end of the day it’s really quite minor. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-portmanteau-words/546123/38 "2010-07-22T05:06:21Z")
On Project Runway, sometimes the designers create a bodice so asymmetrical that it overemphasizes one half of the model’s torso in a manner that almost never looks good. On one of the PR blogs, this is referred to as a “titscrepancy” ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-portmanteau-words/546123/39 "2010-07-22T05:19:01Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > My all-time favorite: > > Ignoranus. > > A person who is not only wrong, but an asshole as well. > > mmm Belligerent + Ignorant = Bellignorant ---
**Author:** ![Runs\_With\_Scissors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/278dde/32.png) [@Runs\_With\_Scissors](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Runs_With_Scissors)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-portmanteau-words/546123/40 "2010-07-22T06:05:44Z")
_I_ was going to create this thread! Seriously…this week. I was going to tack on, in addition, favorites that people have created. Last year, the science teacher on my team was in charge of teaching “fitness and health.” BAM! My brain created “filth.” That’s my favorite 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-portmanteau-words/546123.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-portmanteau-words/546123.md?page=3)