To: Red Badger
“It’s a “portmanteau” of REFUSE and REPUDIATE, hence REFUDIATE........”
I didn’t know combination words like that had a name, so I called them “double exposures”. Portmanteau?
18 posted on
07/19/2010 2:16:18 PM PDT by
RoadTest
(Religion is a substitute for the relationship God wants with you.)
To: RoadTest; Red Badger
Two of my sons have contests with one another in making up portmanteaux. They call it “sportmanteau”.
28 posted on
07/19/2010 2:34:52 PM PDT by
Bigg Red
(Palin/Hunter 2012 -- Bolton their Secretary of State)
To: RoadTest
I like yours better. I’d proposed “repudiate and refute”, but “repudiate and refuse” seems better.
41 posted on
07/19/2010 3:02:29 PM PDT by
The_Reader_David
(And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
To: RoadTest
Portmanteau: A big French suitcase into which you can toss all manner of things. Literally, “carry (the) overcoat”.
54 posted on
07/19/2010 6:01:40 PM PDT by
Tenniel2
(Clarkson, Hammond, and May: the last three sane men in the British Isles.)
To: RoadTest
55 posted on
07/20/2010 5:12:51 AM PDT by
Red Badger
(No, Obama's not the Antichrist. But he does have him on speed dial...............)
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