Rara: What do you call it when someone combines two words and makes another one?
Dave: A hybronym
Rara: *typing* Wait, did you just make that up?
Dave: Yes, but it’s better than whatever the real word is.
He’s not wrong. The real word is portmanteau, and can mean either a large suitcase, or a blended word, or blended form.
hy·bro·nym
1: a word whose form and meaning is derived from a blending of two or more words
That word is technically Dave’s though, so here’s another one.
toestosterone
1: Improbably, incredible toe strength
Make up your own words and submit them in Kylie’s contest! Or, just share them here. But share them somewhere because words need to be freed! http://thelifeofkylie.com/2013/01/01/lets-play-fictionary/
Very funny. I like the toestosterone. I’ll use it if I ever see anyone again with their monkey toes/feet
haha, yayyyy! The word becomes real if others use it!
Two of my favorites are shiteous TM (shitty + hideous) and hideorrendous TM (hideous + horrendous).
haha! Hiddeorrendous is intimidating to read, but insanely fun to say. Love ‘em!
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YES!!! I love making up new words, cause they need to be feed (loved the expression). I do it both in english and also in my native language. It´s such fun, and many times when I don´t find the fit word, it´s better to find something else to make it work
Exactly so!
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Cool!! Thanx for the tip
I make up “hybronyms” all the time (great word, Dave), but now that you’re asking? I can’t think of any of them . . .
That happened to me, too! I feel like I spend most of my days making up words, but then when I saw Kylie’s challenge, my mind went totally blank. I think the problem is that I start to see them as real words! 8)
HA! You are probably right.
My husband’s favourite one (made up by who knows who) is “cankle”–calf-ankles. Happily, I don’t have those.
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Oooo . . . Can I submit it even if I didn’t make up the word?
Sure! I’ve thought of words then googled them to discover they already exist, so don’t hold yourself back
Haha–that’s like the time I thought I made up “twidiot” (I couldn’t figure out how to do something on Twitter), and then I searched it on Twitter and found out that like 12 people had made it up within a week of each other.
Yep! I thought I made up ‘tweets from Dorothy Parker’ but there are at least two other people tweeting as her. I comfort myself that they just seem to tweet straight quote while I try to modernize them or give them a twist.
Ah, nice. Yeah, you definitely have one up on them!
portmanteau? That doesn’t even sound like a real word. That sounds like some sort of French pastry.
I know! Hybronym seems so much more appropriate and specific. Portmanteau is actually kind of fun to say, though. At least the way I say it, which is probably wrong come to think of it…
interinneruniversary!
as in inter-inner-universary alliance!
Weeeeee!
The biggest, most beautiful friendship imaginable! Love it!
(And for those who want to read your post on interinneruniversary : http://ponderingspawned.com/2013/02/13/the-final-frontier/)
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I don’t think I have enough toestosterone. It depletes every time I stub them, which is nearly everyday. And I’m going to start using hybronym more often!
I don’t have enough toestosterone either. I can’t do anything with my toes, though I try… ever since I watched a video of a girl without arms who would do everything in her house with her feet– she even poured her own cereal!
Redonculous (ridiculous + donkey)
A ridiculous donkey, why not?!
Thanks!!
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incidentincendiance = the possibility of a situation blowing up in flames.
As in: “Tailgating has a peculiar incidentincendiance.”
haha! I said that word 5 times just because it’s fun to say. There are a ton of incidentincendiant situations that needed exactly this word!
Thanks!
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Thank you, but just finding out there is a name for what I do caused my brain to go into hypervocabulation today, and this is a monster best left enchained.
Muffian: The rude dude late for work who cuts in line at Starbucks.
Hehehehehe!
Rara! I love these!!! My husband and step-sons toe-wrestle so they definitely have an overload of toestosterone.
And hybronym is fantastic!
Thanks for your entry
Sorry to spam your page. I blame it on Shakespeare, the Spam-Chimp. He has a lot of toestosterone. Thus, he’s very competitive and wants to get this GAME ON! Also, he is lonely.
Haha,no worries. I hope they submit their words, the next best thing to winning is having one of my beloved readers win.
Glad you liked the words and, thanks for creating such a fun contest! Also, did I submit correctly or should I put a direct link in your comments, too?
Oh, you did it perfectly. I just wanted to make sure to have some kind of record attached to the post so I could check them all and reblog the top ten. I went through a lot of internal debate to figure out the rules and changed them so many times in my drafts!!
I want to come up with a definition for ‘portmantoes’ now. Maybe for ‘portlymantoes’ but that would be weightist. Hmmm. Portlandtoes? I live in Portland and see a lot of toes!
Portlandtoes: expensively pedicured toes that you glimpse in a pair of Dansko, Birkenstock, Keen, or Teva sandals.
Perfect! Portlandtoes. We get those out here in Cali, too, haha!
I’ve got ‘em myself!
I thought about that when typing it! Since portmanteaus can mean a suitcase or any sort of metamorph/hybrid… a portmantoe, I suppose it could (etymologically speaking
) be a toe that carries something with it like a fungus! Or, a toe that is made of something that is not toe. Or I suppose it could be what you call it when a man spills port on his toe…. 
I do like the idea of it being a Portland toe sighting, though… there sure are a lot of visible feet in Oregon. 
I think it’s going to require a numbered list of multiple meanings!
Can a Portlyman sight his toes?
Very pertinent post to me as I am writing a post on the words I make up. My favorite? Wibbelty: the dizzying act of rolling ones eyes too fast. Favorite phrase: Oh Schizzle, my fizzle has frizzled….
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An excellent, thoughtful, funny Fictionary entry from Rarasaur.