portmanteau
/pɔːtˈmæn.təʊ//pɔrtˈmæn.toʊ/
- n.
- 手提箱
- adj.
- 多用的，混合的
中文释义来自 ECDICT
词源链
- 英语English
portmanteau
词源说明
From Middle French portemanteau (“coat stand”), from porte (“he carries”, third-person singular present indicative of porter (“to carry”)) + manteau (“coat”), literally “[that which] carries coat”.
The lexical sense (sense 2) was first used figuratively by Lewis Carroll in Through the Looking-Glass (1871) to describe the words he coined in the poem “Jabberwocky”, based on the concept of two words packed together, similar to a portmanteau (etymology). Sense 3 (“portmanteau film”) is derived from this.
释义
名词noun
- 1A large travelling case usually made of leather, and opening into two equal sections.
- 2(linguistics) A word formed by putting two words together and thereby their meaning.
- 3A portmanteau film.