Two recent additions to my portmanteau file: verminfestation ‘vermin infestation’ (found while looking for more -festation words like fleafestation — see here) and teenius ‘teen genius’ (found by Victor Steinbok). Both are deliberately playful, both are telescopings of N+N compounds, both have the contributing words spliced together (rather than merely having the first word substitute for … Continue reading Telescoped portmanteaus