Inventing words using two other words

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By sticking two words together, I've been trying to invent new words / phrases like this one, that are beautiful and evocative. I find this really hard, though. It seems some people are better at this than others. Can you think of a poetic word, born out of the joining together of (two) other words?

― Charlie Wiley, Tuesday, 24 May 2005 18:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Bootyflakes?

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 19:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Cockfarmer?
Asshat?

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 19:02 (twenty-one years ago)

meatflap

― ()ops (()()ps), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 19:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Portmento

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 24 May 2005 19:07 (twenty-one years ago)

My oldest friend, writing a review for my magazine years ago, of a book in Gollancz's famous yellow and black SF line coined the word 'wasptat' for their design, which I still think is great.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 19:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Flabbergast

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 19:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Flappergash - what Irving Berlin chased.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 24 May 2005 19:20 (twenty-one years ago)

petymology - tracing the origins of "meow"

― nickalicious does this a lot, Tuesday, 24 May 2005 19:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Nickalious should be glad he lives in the States lest people accuse him of reading the Daily Mail (they do this a lot too).

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 19:37 (twenty-one years ago)

swanguard

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 19:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Flapdoodle

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 19:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Bandersnatch

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 19:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Cootersnortch

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 24 May 2005 19:58 (twenty-one years ago)

SEXJACKED

― donut debonair (donut), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 20:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Portmento
Portmanteux, you mean.

― Ian Riese-Moraine's Plateau Rouge! (Eastern Mantra), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 20:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Or better, portmanteau(x).

― Ian Riese-Moraine's Plateau Rouge! (Eastern Mantra), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 20:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Portmentos, der Drunkmacher

For Portuguese wine bibing German teenagers

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 20:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Abolicious.

― Rhodia (Rhodia), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 01:30 (twenty-one years ago)

i've been using qweird lately

― [that bastard] jaxon (jaxon), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 01:58 (twenty-one years ago)

vachina

― Remy (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 02:13 (twenty-one years ago)

"automagically" is big at my job for explaining to marketing folks how some tool works.

"fuzzbuster" -> nickname my friend came up for my dog, who will eat anything and everything off a kitchen floor. more efficient than any dustbuster, with soft furryness!

― lyra (lyra), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 02:56 (twenty-one years ago)

vachina

what is this, asian tang?

― [that bastard] jaxon (jaxon), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 02:57 (twenty-one years ago)

yessir.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 03:12 (twenty-one years ago)

knobjockey

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 03:12 (twenty-one years ago)

farmite- farmers marmite

pilk- pigs milk

etc etc......

― battlingspacemonkey (battlingspacemonkey), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 11:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Tricknology

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 11:36 (twenty-one years ago)

bigtit

― Aimless (Aimless), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 16:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I like inventing words by taking a word, chewing it up, and then eating the resulting paste between two other words.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

chris morris and armando ianucci to thread!
:

fucknuts
quadraspaz
lifeglug
frogstupid
ecstasypipes
drugend
zeitguest
psychobattery

it goes on...

― piscesboy, Wednesday, 25 May 2005 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

It is tough, though, ain't it, coming up with poetic ones.. A few of you have been coming up with (nice) blends. What I'm referring to is the process of taking two words, or more, and fastening them together, whilst retaining each word's integrity, resulting in new terms that have a kind of resonant holophrastic quality. "Summersquash", for example.

― Charlie Wiley, Tuesday, 31 May 2005 11:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I was trying to give someone driving directions the other day, and tripped over my words when trying to say either 'crematorium' or 'cemetary'. It came out as 'cremetary', so I call it that now.

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 12:04 (twenty-one years ago)

My father coined 'cuption' accidentally this weekend while trying to say suction cup.

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 15:35 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.platformacd.lv/cd/PRCD090/mentos-freshmaker.gif

― wetmink (wetmink), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 02:32 (twenty-one years ago)

motherfucker, dumbass

― sunny successor (katharine), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 04:06 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

Ah, Dickens to thread: Suckbribe and Slipslop are my favourites composites of his.

― Snodgrass Loon, Tuesday, 19 July 2005 19:30 (twenty years ago)

"*An awsome onomastician./**

― Snodgrass Loon, Tuesday, 19 July 2005 19:37 (twenty years ago)

Sweedlepipe, Honeythunder, Bumble, Pumblechook, and M'Choakumchild

― sNODGRASS lONN, Tuesday, 19 July 2005 19:39 (twenty years ago)

lornaberry

plumdingle

whiskeysnort

automatlas

watchplumper

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 19:41 (twenty years ago)

Onomastic sledery!

― Snodgrass Loon, Tuesday, 19 July 2005 19:56 (twenty years ago)

automatlas = i.e., GPS?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 19:58 (twenty years ago)

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