Malaprops and Portmanteaus

Duplictecture: more like this

PORTMANTEAUS

Two in one: invented by Humpty Dumpty.

alcoholiday A 1913 New York Times article on up-and-coming portmanteaus includes the word “alcoholiday” – leisure time spent drinking. (@mental_floss Should mean holiday from alcohol.)

boatel

Cincinnatives

darkitecture (Dark matter, not buildings, but somebody should build it.)

deskanalia

duplictecture: China building Austrian villages, Stuttgart etc.

edupreneur

evil-lution

fascin-hator

industivity: creative and industrious (@entschwindet)

jungalow (writer Ruth Margolis)

listicle: list+article

mathlete

nostalgiapathetic tweenface (@furmadamadam)

screamish: not for the screamish (@LadyKentmores)

oligarchitecture
parkade: a building designed and constructed for the #parking of vehicles; a multi-storey car park. (Canada) (radio DJ @cowanrob/Rob Cowan)

pleather

prebituary

renoviction: The mass eviction of a building’s tenants to enable it to be renovated. (@cowanrob/Rob Cowan)

slumlord

snowmantics (weatherman Alex Deakin)

sponsumer: not sure how this works

twitchfork mobs (writer Jon Ronson)

vacationary: someone who does missionary work on their vacations

wedmin: wedding admin (@LouisaWilliams4)

yuppiedromes (@entschwindet)


MALAPROPS AND TYPOS

The best malapropisms are righter than the real thing.
aurora for aura: Before plants are injured they have a change in their aurora. (Web)

combishambles for omnishambles (BBC News October 22 2012 That’s a malapropped portmanteau.)

dimonties for diamante

dinaphorous robes (Bargain Hunt)

earthquaque (typo)

adjustable cami top with lace thrill

mundance for mundane

safety nest
sedentary rocks for sedimentary (BBC)

servile oranges (for making marmalade)
 
talentuous (French speaker)

taupe for toupee: a man wearing a very bad taupe has come up and engaged me in conversation (@LadyKentmores)

undwindled luxury for unbridled (Chris Packham)

Why are they all singing in forsetto? (@teamaking)

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