PORTMANTEAU WORDS I
Credit: GAMES Magazine

David Cook
TWO TO ONE

A portmanteau word--a term coined by Lewis Carroll in Through the Looking Glass--is a blend of two other words. For example, a cattle-buffalo hybrid is called a cattalo. Can you determine the combined word made from each pair below?

1. smoke - fog
2. breakfast - lunch
3. bold - audacious
4. cybernetics - organism
5. ebony - phonics
6. prim - sissy
7. situation - comedy
8. squirm - wiggle
9. modulator - demodulator
10. information - commercial
11. simultaneous - broadcast
12. motor - hotel
13. guess - estimate
14. skirt - shorts

Answers:

1. smog
2. brunch
3. bodacious
4. cyborg
5. ebonics
6. prissy
7. sitcom
8. squiggle
9. modem
10. infomercial
11. simulcast
12. motel
13. guesstimate
14. skort