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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 submittedApril 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
Play
61 Comments
+10
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.
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Level 57
Aug 13, 2014
It should be cremation. You don't have cremate remains, you have cremation remains.
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Level 66
Oct 19, 2016
I thought it was cremation too, but then I figured I must be wrong. Cremate remains makes no grammatical sense.
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Level 35
Oct 19, 2016
@YantheMan unless it's a verb.
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Level 91
Jul 1, 2018
But the shortened singular word is obviously a noun, so the first word is a descriptor.
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Level 76
Jul 5, 2014
Damn! Now I realise I knew Tanzania!
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Level 81
Jul 22, 2014
still no Filliam H Muffman?
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Level 48
Jul 24, 2014
I thought crunk stood for chronic + drunk. Where's Lil John when you need him?
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Level 89
Jul 29, 2020
I agree with this. That's what I always thought.
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Level 67
Oct 26, 2014
that "yi" in the Tanganyika spelling is too difficult, in other cases you give much more help
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Level 73
Feb 7, 2021
Agreed. More type-ins for Tanganyika would be ever so helpful! I reliably spell it Tanganikya :'(
+13
Level 83
Nov 9, 2015
Anyone else think Frolf sounds like the ship name of Frodo and Gandalf?
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Level 62
Oct 19, 2016
I tried that combination first.
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Level 63
Oct 19, 2016
I tried it, repeatedly
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Level 73
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

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Level 68
Feb 21, 2021
I was watching golf on tv while doing this quiz and I didn't even think to guess that.
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Level 40
Oct 28, 2020
I though it was frosted wolf...
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Level 75
Oct 19, 2016
No scrumtrelescent? I'm confuzzled.....
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Level 82
Oct 19, 2016
I though for sure this would have Cronut.
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Level 78
Oct 19, 2016
I had no idea about the origin of Tanzania! Love it!
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Level 73
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.

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Level 82
Jul 29, 2020
Count your blessings; you don't want those words.
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Level 30
Jan 8, 2021
why wouldn't you want those words?
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Level 53
Feb 21, 2021
They're not really words, just made up garbage.
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Level 70
Feb 21, 2021
You might want to defog your monocle and look again, because those words are awesome.
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Level 73
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.

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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.
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Level 57
Feb 23, 2021
I’m American and I’ve only heard Ebonics before, never any of the others...
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Level 84
Jan 23, 2024
Ebonics is well known in linguistics. It's the (study of) languages created by Africans who spoke different languages (to each other) but made new ones in order to adapt to enslavement. John McWhorter is a published author and expert linguist on the subject.
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Level 73
Mar 31, 2024
Ebonics is a well-known word, well maybe not very well known, but you don't need to be american or even an English speaker to know it. I know it. Though I admit I have been known to spend time on etymologysites, though I don't think that is where I got it from. I don't think my sister knows it for instance. It is a matter of what you do in your free time and what you retain. She is less on the internet, and definitely reads less English.

Ebonics refers to the african-american vernacular. (btw I think I heard of the word ebonics before I learned the word vernacular. Though It was quite some time before I looked up what exactly ebonics meant, though I had gotten the general idea, I came across it quite often)

The others I indeed have not heard of before, crunk once perhaps ( maybe on this site?) but I think I choose to forget it right away again haha. Some port-manteaus just feel too fabricated.

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Level 59
Oct 19, 2016
frolf is actually used?? i just say disc golf as does everyone where i live
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Level 60
Oct 20, 2016
It was used in Seinfeld.

He frolfs, he scores!

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

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Level 43
Oct 19, 2016
I think Brangelina is way moooore famous than TomKat... until now hahahaha
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Level 47
Nov 22, 2016
Isn't it spelled "portmanteaux"?
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Level 94
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.
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Level 23
Jan 12, 2017
I have never heard of the term "frolf" before. Everyone just calls it frisbee-golf, at least I thought
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Level 64
Jun 8, 2020
Yeah, I play it frequently, and I've never heard it called that.
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Level 74
Sep 2, 2017
Tanzania was pretty hard, but interesting.
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Level 70
Feb 21, 2021
Zanzibar has to be one of the coolest place names on the planet.
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Level 72
Sep 3, 2017
Huh, I thought all these -alot things came from Lancelot.
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Level 73
Oct 7, 2019
Yea thats what i tried aswell, and was confused for a while, I did end up thinking of camelot though
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Level 91
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.
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Level 91
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.
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Level 73
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.
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Level 68
Feb 21, 2021
Same here. I tried Jogging Shorts.
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Level 42
May 9, 2020
Positive electrons? Those exist?
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Level 64
Jun 8, 2020
A positron is the antimatter counterpart of an electron. They have all the same properties except positive/negative and matter/antimatter.
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Level 89
Jul 29, 2020
Look up "PET scan".
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Level 94
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).
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Level 73
Mar 31, 2024
Not all of them are down you know. And no, before you ask, Positron is not one of the transformers.
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Level 64
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.
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Level 64
Jun 8, 2020
I knew Tanzania but not crunk. I'll take this as a good sign.
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Level 86
Jul 30, 2020
Hadn't heard the word "crunk" before. I feel dumber for knowing it.
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Level 70
Jul 30, 2020
I think Chuckle and Snort should be 'Snorkle'
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Level 94
Jul 30, 2020
Spam is itself a portmanteau originally coming from spiced ham.
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Level 86
Jul 30, 2020
Not including "traveshamockery" on this quiz is a traveshamockery! Somebody tell Bob Odenkirk.
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Level 81
Aug 25, 2020
Is "bro" short for brother or is it now it's own word with a distinct separate meaning?
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Level 80
Jan 9, 2021
Blimey, I tried phonetics but not phonics.
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Level 78
Feb 21, 2021
accept ‘roleplay’ for the last one?
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Level 50
Feb 24, 2021
Why? It's clearly incorrect, as "role" is not the original word from which the portmanteaux is derived.
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Level 72
Feb 21, 2021
I never knew cosplay. Not my thing. Learned something cool about Tanzania.