Today’s Bizarro: A labradoodle performing magic: abracadabra [the magical incantation] + labradoodle = abracadabradoodle. But labradoodle is itself a portmanteau: labrador (retriever) + poodle. There are obvious limits to how far such layering can go on, since the bits of the contributing words quickly become hard to retrieve — though an illustration might help, as … Continue reading Layered portmanteaus
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