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<p>In <a href="page.php?w=literary_theory">literature</a>, a <b>portmanteau</b>, also known in <a href="page.php?w=linguistics">linguistics</a> and <a href="page.php?w=lexicography">lexicography</a> as a <b>blend word</b>, <b>lexical blend</b>, or simply a <b>blend</b>, is a word formed by combining the meanings and parts of the sounds of two or more words. English examples include <a href="page.php?w=smog">smog</a>, coined by blending smoke and fog, and <a href="page.php?w=motel">motel</a>, from motor (<a href="page.php?w=motorist">motorist</a>)</p><p>
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