Word: portmanteau
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...happened last year when Dr. Halibut Fish was certified as an accumulator of concentrated Vitamin A in his liver. His Vitamin D content was less significant. Abbott Laboratories of Chicago and Parke, Davis fortified A-rich halibut liver oil with viosterol (a concentrated Vitamin D), called the product haliver (portmanteau for halibut liver) oil with viosterol, and exploited the trade name Haliver so vigorously, that Mead Johnson last month took six consecutive pages of advertising in one journal to remind doctors, in large sultry yellow, type, that "The Fish's . . . Name . . . Is . . . Halibut...
...insurance companies, desire for burial in hallowed ground and insurance payments to heirs, constrain many a suicide to disguise his act. Commonest disguise is to "fall" or "jump" from a high place, an act for which the New York Times has suggested the ambiguous, legally safe portmanteau word "flump" (TIME, Sept...
...Lewis Carroll, famed for "Jabberwocky," called them "portmanteau" words, two or more meanings or images being packed in together. In the illustration, "delicious-excruciatingly-flippant-quips" becomes two easily pronounceable new words...
...this familiar outline, Miss Lowell has brought new opinions, new material. She has studied old stage coach timetables, conjectured whether Keats stowed his portmanteau in the boot or had it sent by wagon; traced the influence upon his poetry of the Elgin Marbles, of an ash tree full of berries he saw somewhere, of a black eye he suffered in a game of cricket; computed how much claret he drank, examined a lock of his hair ("Such red, I think, I never saw before"), related how he received a kiss from a lady at a place called Bo Peep...
That there is a distinct demand for plays of this type is shown by the welcome which the players received at the Century Theatre in New York. Among the Eastern colleges and universities, the Portmanteau Theatre has met with especial enthusiasm. It is well worth while. Those who attend either of today's performances will be pleasantly surprised with the excellent acting, the quaint atmosphere and with the choice of plays...