Word: portmanteau
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...average moviegoer, but it should work up a gentle glow among the many admirers of Director Truffaut. Filming for the first time in English, he loses nothing but one elegant Gallic pun-in the original scenario the French words for "book men" and "free men" are combined in a portmanteau phrase: les hommes-livres. Filming for the first time in color, he employs it with admirable tact to contrast God's green world with man's grey life...
...separate the Chinese from such dubious delights, Sun Yat-sen and his followers included abolition of footbinding in a portmanteau program of feminine emancipation. Even then, millions of women obdurately refused to unbind-and not only because letting the feet out was almost as painful as binding them up. They simply feared that if they lost the lotus they would lose their man. As it turned out, most men were secretly pleased to have a wife who could also stand up and do housework...
...internal problem" of the army that would be settled by the army; 2) accept the statement by the Communist Party's Politburo that the Reds had nothing to do with the attempted coup; 3) support a return to unity and a revival of "Nasakom"-one of the portmanteau words Sukarno loves to invent. This one is composed of the first letters of the words for nationalism, religion and Communism and is supposed to symbolize the merging of all three currents to carry forward the "revolution...
...stressed that his report will be less of an effort to say anything new than a "portmanteau" proposal gathered from the various phases of the Gen Ed debate. "Obviously," he added, "one man can't do in three weeks what nine men took more than a year to prepare...
...portmanteau word, combining snake and shark, invented by Lewis Carroll for the ineluctable prey of his poem, "The Hunting of the Snark." One variety-the Boojum-had the power to make its hunter "softly and suddenly vanish away...