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A portmanteau is used broadly to mean a blend of two (or more) words,[1][2][3] and narrowly in some linguistics fields to mean only a blend of two or more function words.[4][5][6][7] "Portmanteau word" is used to describe a linguistic blend, namely "a word formed by blending sounds from two or more distinct words and combining their meanings".[1] Such a definition of "portmanteau word" overlaps with the grammatical term contraction, and linguists avoid using the former term in such cases. As an example the words do + not become the contraction don't, a single word that represents the meaning of the combined words. The usage of the word 'portmanteau' in this sense first appeared in Lewis Carroll's book Through the Looking-Glass (1871),[1] in which Humpty Dumpty explains to Alice the coinage of the unusual words in Jabberwocky[8]
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