Portmanteau - Letter C |
Portmanteau |
Meaning |
Californication |
from California and fornication |
camcorder |
from camera and recorder |
cameleopard |
from camel and leopard |
cankles |
from calf and ankles |
carjack |
from car and hijack |
cassingle |
from cassette and single |
celebutante |
from celebrity and débutante |
celesbian |
from celebrity and lesbian |
cellophane |
from cellulose and diaphane |
chavtastic |
from chav and fantastic (meaning, 'having many
characteristics of a chav', rather than a 'fantastic chav') |
Chesterbelloc |
from G K Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc |
chillax |
from chill and relax |
Chinarello |
from China and Pinarello (used to describe a counterfeit
Pinarello racing bike) |
Chindian |
meaning someone with both Chinese and Indian ethnic heritage |
Chinglish |
English and Chinese mixed up to humorous effect (cf.
Spanglish, Franglais, Japanglish) |
chokebreaker |
from chokeslam and backbreaker |
chortle |
from chuckle and snort (coined by Lewis Carroll) |
Chrismukkah |
from Christmas and Hanukkah (popularized by The O.C.) |
chuggers |
from charity and muggers |
Chunnel |
from (English) Channel and tunnel |
churnalism |
from churned-out journalism |
Clintonomics |
from Bill Clinton and economics |
clopen set |
from closed-open set |
cockapoo |
from Cocker Spaniel and Poodle |
coopetition |
from cooperation and competition |
cosplay |
from costume and roleplay |
cremains |
from cremate and remains |
cryptanalysis |
from cryptogram and analysis |
cryptex |
from cryptology and codex |
cyberdelic |
from prefix cyber- and psychedelic |