# 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:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**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, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-portmanteau-words/546123/41 "2010-07-22T06:12:28Z")
Actually, my favorite is another I coined, and this is the second thread I’ve gotten to use it. Bunt. For a woman who’s a bitch _and_ a cunt. ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-portmanteau-words/546123/42 "2010-07-22T06:30:41Z")
> [@Runs\_With\_Scissors](#): > > Actually, my favorite is another I coined, and this is the second thread I’ve gotten to use it. > > Bunt. > > For a woman who’s a bitch _and_ a cunt. [Bunt](http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bunt) already has several meanings. (Not the only example in this thread.) Is it really a portmanteau to simply add a new definition to an existing word, even if you can (as in this case) invent a combination of morphemes to justify the new definition? ---
**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, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-portmanteau-words/546123/43 "2010-07-22T06:33:23Z")
> [@Knorf](#): > > [Bunt already has several meanings](http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bunt). > (Not the only example in this thread.) > > Is it really a portmanteau to simply add a new definition to an existing word? Some day…they’ll have _my_ definition and cite me! /me rubs his hands together and laughs like the villains in James Bond movies. ---
**Author:** ![KinkiNipponTourist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e9bcb4/32.png) [@KinkiNipponTourist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KinkiNipponTourist)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-portmanteau-words/546123/44 "2010-07-22T09:10:48Z")
[Refudiate](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/20/sarah-palin-refudiate-twi_n_653100.html) ---
**Author:** ![Flipshod](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f19dbf/32.png) [@Flipshod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flipshod)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-portmanteau-words/546123/45 "2010-07-22T12:53:43Z")
toolavanting–said years ago by a coworker accidentally about another who could never be found because he was always wandering around “I can’t do my part because you’re always toolavanting around.” (tooling and galavanting) ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-portmanteau-words/546123/46 "2010-07-22T16:41:13Z")
> [@KinkiNipponTourist](#): > > [Refudiate](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/20/sarah-palin-refudiate-twi_n_653100.html) I’m no fan of Sarah Palin but I have to admit I like “refudiate”. ---
**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 23, 2010, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-portmanteau-words/546123/47 "2010-07-23T04:32:51Z")
A friend used to use “Fweird” = funny + weird. ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-portmanteau-words/546123/48 "2010-07-23T05:57:14Z")
A lot of these seem to be more in the “Sniglet” realm than the portmanteau one. (Or is portmanteau the original word for sniglet? :D). Sniglet: > **[Sniglet](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sniglet)** > > A sniglet (/ˈsnɪɡlɪt/) is an often humorous word made up to describe something for which no dictionary word exists. Introduced in the 1980s TV comedy series Not Necessarily the News, sniglets were generated and published in significant numbers, along with submissions by fans, in several books by Rich Hall, beginning with his Sniglets, Sniglets for Kids, and More Sniglets in the mid-1980s. > The term sniglet was conceived by comedian Rich Hall during his tenure on the 1980s HBO comedy series Not Ne... ---
**Author:** ![Cardinal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal/32/4000_2.png) [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-portmanteau-words/546123/49 "2010-07-23T07:56:43Z")
> [@Askance](#): > > Skort - love the word, hate the garment. It’s not a real symbol of elegance, but the number of times I would have been flashed by 15 year-olds over the past few years shows the real, serious need for their use in school uniforms. ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-portmanteau-words/546123/50 "2010-07-23T21:45:38Z")
A friend of mines uses a very elegant word to describe a particular bulging area on a overweight woman. That is, the area which is below her belt line, below her gut, if you will - particularly if the belt is tight, pushing fat down, creating and accentuating a mound below her midriff - and above her groin. That word is ‘gunt’. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-portmanteau-words/546123.md?page=2)