Crossword-Solution: PORTMANTEAU
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Portmanteau | n. | A bag or case, usually of leather, for carrying wearing apparel, etc., on journeys. |
We have 16 clues for the answer “PORTMANTEAU”
| Clue | Answers |
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| "Bridezilla," for instance | 1 answer |
| "Frenemy" or "frankenfood" | 1 answer |
| A large travelling bag that opens into two equal parts | 1 answer |
| Blend of two parts | 1 answer |
| Each of the starred clues' answers, or what these answers' starts collectively sound like | 1 answer |
| Large travelling bag that opens flat | 1 answer |
| Word blending suitcase for meanings | 1 answer |
| Type of word found twice in each of the six longest answers | 1 answer |
| Word like "brunch" | 1 answer |
| Word like "smog" | 1 answer |
| a case opening in two parts, used for carrying clothes while travelling | 1 answer |
| travelling-case | 4 answers |
| Suitcase | 6 answers |
| Valise | 8 answers |
| A LARGE TRAVELLING BAG MADE OF STIFF LEATHER | 11 answers |
| __ bag | 71 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with PORTMANTEAU (5)
Ablewhite’s portmanteau to London by the next train, and return the washing-book, with my compliments and thanks, to the young woman who brought it in.” He laid the washing-book on the table, and taking out his penknife, began to trim his nails.
Never once did he complain of the length or fatigue of a journey, never make an objection to pack his portmanteau for whatever country it might be, or however far away, whether China or Congo.
For a moment Charity looked at him with a kind of terror, as if he had been a stranger under familiar lineaments; then she glanced past him and saw on the floor an open portmanteau half full of clothes.
Newman made his way to the great seaport and secured his berth; and the night before sailing he sat in his room at the hotel, staring down, vacantly and wearily, at an open portmanteau.
Early the next morning—that is to say, four hours after their stolen interview, and just as the earliest servant was heard moving about—Stephen Smith went downstairs, portmanteau in hand.
Quotes with PORTMANTEAU (3)
It can certainly be misleading to take the attributes of a movement, or the anxieties and contradictions of a moment, and to personalize or 'objectify' them in the figure of one individual. Yet ordinary discourse would be unfeasible without the use of portmanteau terms — like 'Stalinism,' say — just as the most scrupulous insistence on historical forces will often have to concede to the sheer personality of a Napoleon or a Hitler. I thought then, and I think now, that Osama b…
Mostly what you lose with time, in memory, is the specificity of things, their exact sequence. It all runs together, becomes a watery soup. Portmanteau days, imploded years. Like a bad actor, memory always goes for effect, abjuring motivation, consistency, good sense.
In 1963, when I assigned the name "quark" to the fundamental constituents of the nucleon, I had the sound first, without the spelling, which could have been "kwork." Then, in one of my occasional perusals of Finnegans Wake, by James Joyce, I came across the word "quark" in the phrase "Three quarks for Muster Mark." Since "quark" (meaning, for one thing, the cry of a gull) was clearly intended to rhyme with "Mark," as well as "bark" and other such words, I had to find an excus…
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Appears in: Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (2003–2024).