Portmanteaus Quiz #3

A portmanteau is the combining of two words to make a new word. For example Man + Purse = Murse. Guess the "components" of these portmanteaus.

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First submitted	April 7, 2014
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Phablet

Phone

Tablet

Sitcom

Situation

Comedy

Camcorder

Camera

Recorder

Bromance

Bro

Romance

Jorts

Jean

Shorts

Manscaping

Man

Landscaping

Ebonics

Ebony

Phonics

Fantabulous

Fantastic

Fabulous

Cremains

Cremate

Remains

Frolf

Frisbee

Golf

Tofurkey

Tofu

Turkey

Chortle

Chuckle

Snort

Mocktail

Mock

Cocktail

Crunk

Crazy

Drunk

Positron

Positive

Electron

Spamalot

Spam

Camelot

Tanzania

Tanganyika

Zanzibar

Cosplay

Costume

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Level 33

Jun 21, 2014

I thought it was cremation but I don't think I spelled it right. Then I realized it was cremate.

+11

Level 57

Aug 13, 2014

It should be cremation. You don't have cremate remains, you have cremation remains.

Level 65

Oct 19, 2016

I thought it was cremation too, but then I figured I must be wrong. Cremate remains makes no grammatical sense.

Level 20

Oct 19, 2016

@YantheMan unless it's a verb.

Level 88

Jul 1, 2018

But the shortened singular word is obviously a noun, so the first word is a descriptor.

Level 78

Jul 5, 2014

Damn! Now I realise I knew Tanzania!

Level 83

Jul 22, 2014

still no Filliam H Muffman?

Level 48

Jul 24, 2014

I thought crunk stood for chronic + drunk. Where's Lil John when you need him?

Level 85

Jul 29, 2020

I agree with this. That's what I always thought.

Level 66

Oct 26, 2014

that "yi" in the Tanganyika spelling is too difficult, in other cases you give much more help

Level 74

Feb 7, 2021

Agreed. More type-ins for Tanganyika would be ever so helpful! I reliably spell it Tanganikya :'(

+13

Level 82

Nov 9, 2015

Anyone else think Frolf sounds like the ship name of Frodo and Gandalf?

Level 48

Oct 19, 2016

I tried that combination first.

Level 64

Oct 19, 2016

I tried it, repeatedly

Level 66

Oct 7, 2019

I admit, after having golf and thinking of what the first part could be and not being able to think of anything I tried frodo before I thought of frisbee.

I am sure frodo golf ( hobbit golf) is a thinkg somewhere somehow

Level 65

Feb 21, 2021

I was watching golf on tv while doing this quiz and I didn't even think to guess that.

Level 41

Oct 28, 2020

I though it was frosted wolf...

Level 77

Oct 19, 2016

No scrumtrelescent? I'm confuzzled.....

Level 79

Oct 19, 2016

I though for sure this would have Cronut.

Level 78

Oct 19, 2016

I had no idea about the origin of Tanzania! Love it!

Level 71

Oct 19, 2016

Never heard of "Ebonics, Frolf, Crunk, or Jorts." Are they Americanisms that haven't made it across the Pond, or have I just missed out on them?

I didn't know TomKat either, but the picture gave it away.

Level 85

Jul 29, 2020

Count your blessings; you don't want those words.

Level 30

Jan 8, 2021

why wouldn't you want those words?

Level 54

Feb 21, 2021

They're not really words, just made up garbage.

Level 69

Feb 21, 2021

You might want to defog your monocle and look again, because those words are awesome.

Level 71

Aug 9, 2020

Nearly four years later and l still haven’t heard “Ebonics, Frolf or Crunk.” I managed to guess. “Jorts” but not sure

I have ever heard the term used over here.

Level 71

Aug 25, 2020

I'm an American and have never heard any of those terms except Jorts, and even then I think that's pretty uncommon.

Level 57

Feb 23, 2021

I’m American and I’ve only heard Ebonics before, never any of the others...

Level 52

Oct 19, 2016

frolf is actually used?? i just say disc golf as does everyone where i live

Level 61

Oct 20, 2016

It was used in Seinfeld.

He frolfs, he scores!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI_iOFxsxcc

Level 40

Oct 19, 2016

I think Brangelina is way moooore famous than TomKat... until now hahahaha

Level 48

Nov 22, 2016

Isn't it spelled "portmanteaux"?

Level 91

Jul 30, 2020

Both are acceptable as the x variant requires importing plural rules and has a silent x so would be ambiguous when spoken in English.

Level 23

Jan 12, 2017

I have never heard of the term "frolf" before. Everyone just calls it frisbee-golf, at least I thought

Level 65

Jun 8, 2020

Yeah, I play it frequently, and I've never heard it called that.

Level 64

Sep 2, 2017

Tanzania was pretty hard, but interesting.

Level 69

Feb 21, 2021

Zanzibar has to be one of the coolest place names on the planet.

Level 69

Sep 3, 2017

Huh, I thought all these -alot things came from Lancelot.

Level 66

Oct 7, 2019

Yea thats what i tried aswell, and was confused for a while, I did end up thinking of camelot though

Level 88

Jul 1, 2018

If you type in camera followed by recorder you get "era recorder" (which might be a yearbook?) left in the answer box, because it just accepts can as a word. Continuing along the quiz, you get a backed up mess and have to go all over again because camcorder is accepted as an instrument which records the revolutions of a valve bumper. The same with bro being accepted as the original word for the shortened version of itself.

Level 88

Jul 1, 2018

Level 66

Oct 7, 2019

Got most, never heard of crunk or jorts (got the shorts part though). Knew the zanzibar part of tanzania, but not the other one.

Level 65

Feb 21, 2021

Same here. I tried Jogging Shorts.

Level 43

May 9, 2020

Positive electrons? Those exist?

Level 65

Jun 8, 2020

A positron is the antimatter counterpart of an electron. They have all the same properties except positive/negative and matter/antimatter.

Level 85

Jul 29, 2020

Look up "PET scan".

Level 91

Jul 30, 2020

They are found as the particles released in some radioactive decay, including Carbon10 which goes to Boron10 (1 proton becomes a neutron so a positive particle must be released).

Level 65

Jun 8, 2020

Are the "interesting facts" randomized? I got the one about Budapest = Buda + Pest on a quiz about portmanteaus, and it's a little freaky.

Level 65

Jun 8, 2020

I knew Tanzania but not crunk. I'll take this as a good sign.

Level 83

Jul 30, 2020

Hadn't heard the word "crunk" before. I feel dumber for knowing it.

Level 71

Jul 30, 2020

I think Chuckle and Snort should be 'Snorkle'

Level 91

Jul 30, 2020

Spam is itself a portmanteau originally coming from spiced ham.

Level 84

Jul 30, 2020

Not including "traveshamockery" on this quiz is a traveshamockery! Somebody tell Bob Odenkirk.

Level 83

Aug 25, 2020

Is "bro" short for brother or is it now it's own word with a distinct separate meaning?

Level 77

Jan 9, 2021

Blimey, I tried phonetics but not phonics.

Level 73

Feb 21, 2021

accept ‘roleplay’ for the last one?

Level 51

Feb 24, 2021

Why? It's clearly incorrect, as "role" is not the original word from which the portmanteaux is derived.

Level 74

Feb 21, 2021

I never knew cosplay. Not my thing. Learned something cool about Tanzania.

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