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A portmanteau is a word which is formed by combining two (or occasionally more) other words together.

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What is the word and/or process used to describe mashing two words together or inserting pho...

The word is portmanteau. I found this: "Portmanteau word "word blending the sound of two different words" (1882), coined by "Lewis Carroll" (Charles L. Dodgson, 1832-1898) for the sort of words he inv …
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