Portmanteau mischief: brouhaha = bruja + haha = a witch comedian
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👓 Portmanteau | Wikipedia
A portmanteau or portmanteau word is a linguistic blend of words, in which parts of multiple words or their phones (sounds) are combined into a new word, as in smog, coined by blending smoke and fog, or motel, from motor and hotel. In linguistics, a portmanteau is defined as a single morph that represents two or more morphemes.
👓 Allow me to explain why we don’t need words like ‘mansplain’ | The Guardian
The man-shaming portmanteau undermines feminism’s message of equality