Today, thanks to YouTube comments, I learned this word.

Urban Dictionary: malding

When someone is expressing a large magnitude of rage, often over something relatively small, that the stress they are giving upon themselves causes their hair to fall out (thus, balding). Portemanteau of "mad" and "balding".

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=malding

Caucnitive Dissonance & Beatlemania
Sunn m'Cheaux
#BlackMastodon #History #Portmanteau #TheBeatles #Music #BlackMusic #Education #Linguistics #Language #Lesson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHCqIqf7n-A

Faygöagen-Dazs #food #portmanteau

Portmanteau of the day (and it's not even 8am):

I tried to say sarcastically, "That's fun," but my brain also supplied a deadpan, "That's an understatement," at the same time and so it came out as "That's a funderstatement!"

#prouward -- "prow ward", a proud coward.

Example:

> She'll give a backhanded complement custom crafted to piss me off and she'll stand there with her arms crossed and a smug smile and say nothing.
>
> This is how she criticizes anyone. She has to hide behind the deniability like a child.
>
> Pfft. Fuck her. What a prouward.

Are #anime fans who act snobbish about subs called "snubs"? #portmanteau

calling Twitter a #DumpsterFire infringes on the 1937 trademark of the "Dempster Dump" product.

(and the 1935 patent from the Dempster brothers with their #portmanteau of Dump with their last name)

I might have gone for “HAL-SHROOM-I”, but I like this #portmanteau. What say you @allusionistshow? #portmantYES or #portmantNO?

(First posted 27 Jan. 2019 by me [@]danishmunk@twitter.com)

In my latest blog post, learn about #portmanteau words: what are they and why are they called like that?

Link in bio or visit https://grammaticus.blog/2023/04/03/portmanteaus/

Pat just showed me a real estate listing that referred to an extra-nice garage as the "GarageMahal."

You open an app.

A modal dialog pops up, ostensibly explaining how to use a new feature, but really its purpose is just to let you know that the feature exists at all. Is it: