What are your favorite portmanteau words?

What the wife and I call the huge, multi-winged Mega church in town.

Pornado. I just heard that one today.

Chortle.

Gerrymander

Fugly.

Skort - love the word, hate the garment

Do you mean “when you love somebody but you don’t really like them”? Because otherwise this state would be covered by, like, “like”.

My current favorite is “cremains”, for cremated remains.

My all-time favorite:

Ignoranus.

A person who is not only wrong, but an asshole as well.

mmm

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.

There is a fake (really!) town in between Orlando and Tampa called Orlampa. I think that’s adorable.

Grrrr, all the money I plowed into real estate in Future Downtown Orlampa is now worthless :mad:

“Confuzzled” - a cross between confused and puzzled.

Ginormous is a fantabulous word

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.

You really weren’t kidding! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlampa,_Florida

Mangina

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.

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”

Belligerent + Ignorant = Bellignorant

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 :slight_smile: