A portmanteau is a new word coined by combining two other words, and GAYMER is a portmanteau of GAY and GAMER.
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YANDHI is, as you might expect, a portmanteau of 'Ye' and 'Gandhi', much in the same way that Yeezus was a portmanteau of 'Ye' and 'Jesus'.
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" The term "boushy" is a portmanteau, related to "bougie.
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Hence the name "Illusive", a portmanteau of illusion and elusive.
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Nice little portmanteau: Everyone decided to call it the Harbowl.
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Panera is a portmanteau of the words "pan" and "era."
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Some who admire the creatures balk at the portmanteau name.
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"Anthropocene," the geological portmanteau term for "the age of humanity" which
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The regrettable portmanteau "Pocahontits" is spoken less than five minutes in.
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Although, for what it's worth, "Stonefield" is a remarkably subtle portmanteau.
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Chris is a sales trainer, a funny portmanteau of Bachelor professions.
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"Ninjago," a portmanteau of "ninja" and "Lego," is not a thing.
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I'm thinking about how I'm going to use "portmanteau" in a sentence.
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Josh Agle is better known by a portmanteau of his name: Shag.
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She went with an emoji portmanteau, and named it "IM🍑MENT."
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There's space for every pronoun, every hyphen and every politically correct portmanteau.
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The communities come up with tabloid-y portmanteau names for these pairings, too.
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" All of my cousins call her "MaMean," a portmanteau of "mom" and "mean.
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Yahoo, an internet pioneer, has been renamed Altaba, a portmanteau of "alternative Alibaba".
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That being said, it's still striking that he doesn't know the Brexit portmanteau.
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Ironically enough we never managed to incorporate the portmanteau that had united us.
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But more than that, Vrse's portmanteau of "VR" and "universe" might soon be obsolete.
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The fiction was accurate down to a portmanteau nickname: Nurhadi and Aldo became "Dildo".
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Creating a "finsta"—a gummy portmanteau of "fake" and "insta"—wasn't obvious at first.
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You need also to know that "jeggings" is a portmanteau for jeans and leggings.
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Another called it his "new favourite portmanteau word," and others declared it simply "beautiful."
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" In my case, the condition is called diabulimia, a portmanteau of "diabetes" and "bulimia.
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It's a portmanteau of "acronym" and the French 'apropos,' which is the relevant part.
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Both kids have the last name Wojin, a portmanteau of their parents' last names.
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The laze, a portmanteau of "lava" and "haze," may look beautiful, but it's potentially deadly.
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Her name is a portmanteau of Van Gogh and Madonna; her true identity is unknown.
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What is there left to say about this portmanteau that has not already been said?
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Although the word is a portmanteau of "burqa" and "bikini", the item itself is not.
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It's a portmanteau of many different kinds of drama: domestic, romantic, military, political, even espionage.
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But the sheer volume allowed it to be a TV portmanteau, several shows in one.
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Others point to "slacktivism," a portmanteau of "slacker" and "activism," as part of the problem.
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In the first, the artist stages a portmanteau of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet with E!
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The phenomenon goes by the portmanteau "thundersnow," because, after all, that is an awesome word.
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Naturally, there's a portmanteau word for this — dostadning ("do" for death and "stadning" for cleaning).
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I think not," Timberlake posed the question in the clip, even giving it the portmanteau: "Braspberry.
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Radiograms (a portmanteau of radio and gramophone), were popular through the 1960s, but eventually became outmoded.
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" A standout artwork reads "GRATTITUDĆŽ," which McLean points out is a portmanteau of "gratitude" and "attitude.
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Ibifornia is a portmanteau of the sunny state of California and Spanish party island of Ibiza.
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" Intelity, Tomozei explains to The Creators Project, is a portmanteau of two terms—"intelligence" and "identity.
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The world has its own portmanteau for Zayn and Gigi Hadid's sexy, heavily Snapchatted relationship: Zigi.
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Tiger Woods, a golfer, calls himself "cablinasian" (a portmanteau of caucasian, black, American Indian and Asian).
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Scrotox. If you're thinking that it sounds like a portmanteau of scrotum and Botox, you're right.
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Psycle—a portmanteau of cycle and "psyche," Greek for soul or spirit—is one of them.
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Yep, it is a thing, actually a "pollutant that's also a portmanteau," thank you very much.
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Rappler — a portmanteau of "rap" and "ripple," as in ripples of change — went live on Jan.
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ECOTAGE is a portmanteau of ECOlogy and saboTAGE, and are acts of extremism by eco-terrorists.
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That said, "dogies" (doge-eeze) — my new portmanteau for "slofies" of dogs — are pretty great #dogie.
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And was it a nonstarter to go by the portmanteau our friends had devised: The Hobermuellers.
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His Boogaali brand is portmanteau of bamboo and "gaali", which means bicycle in the local Luganda language.
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The word is a portmanteau of "planned" and "candid," which kinda sounds like a contradiction in terms.
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The merchandising of the mascot, dubbed Fuleco, a portmanteau of "Futebol" and "Ecologia", raised millions of dollars.
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Known as the clunky portmanteau Brangelina, the two were a Hollywood pair that many people believed in.
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Before, Alexa was only able to understand a few Hinglish (a portmanteau of Hindi and English) commands.
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Smith, what might be the greatest celebrity portmanteau ever (Brangelina) and the fiercest red carpet couple appearances.
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These meats are consumed with such frequency that they've even entered the portmanteau parlance of Filipino breakfast.
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Soulsborne (a portmanteau that refers to developer From Software's line of action games) games are notoriously difficult.
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For Marisol, the sisters represent "gente-fication," a Spanish-English portmanteau for people gentrifying their own home.
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VOLUNTOLD is the portmanteau that brought us together but didn't make the cut in our last collaboration.
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Throughout the decades, female baddies — let's avoid a tempting portmanteau — have so often been the best-dressed characters.
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Kathryn Scott Osler/Getty Images The Juneteenth portmanteau — mashing up "June" and "nineteenth" — appears to be uniquely Texan.
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Neom is a portmanteau of the Greek word neos, meaning "new," and mustaqbal, the Arabic word for "future."
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Evidence includes their portmanteau, friendship necklaces featuring said moniker, and frequent appearances on each other's social media accounts.
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The first-of-its kind reproductive system—a portmanteau of "Eve" and "avatar"—made its debut last month.
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It was mocked as "Bibiton," a portmanteau of Mr. Netanyahu's nickname, Bibi, and the Hebrew word for newspaper.
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The service, later named Quibi — a portmanteau of "quick" and "bites" — is set to launch in April 2020.
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Every morning the festival offered "Moga" at The Durham Hotel, which is a portmanteau for exactly what you think.
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The word "nostalgia" is a portmanteau drawn from Greek that translates to something like "ache for home," or homesickness.
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That first generation's 5.3-inch display transformed the word "phablet" from similar tech portmanteau to a mainstream product category.
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". Lace also made up a word last night: "genuous," which I'm assuming is a portmanteau of "genuine" and "generous.
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"I didn't know what a 'blerd' was until the cruise," he said, using the portmanteau term for black nerds.
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Actually, there are such things as WIIMOTES, a portmanteau, because apparently you use remote controls when you play Wii.
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Out here, winter is portmanteau season — we just got stuck in Snowvember, and snowpocalypse and snowmaggedon are coming. Hooray!
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He has always been fast: Jones's father, Cal, dubbed him Debo, a portmanteau of Deion Sanders and Bo Jackson.
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His (not entirely inaccurate) portmanteau notwithstanding, I think a fair appraisal of the results shows more lashes than that.
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A portmanteau of 'architecture' and 'ecology,' arcology was first theorized by the Italian architect Paolo Soleri in the late 2100s.
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Others may have wept and finally taken down their Niley (Nick Jonas and Miley Cyrus' portmanteau-d couple name) shrine.
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Correction: An earlier version of this article stated that the Larry Stylinson portmanteau refers to Harry Styles and Liam Payne.
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General Mills debuted these hourglass 'marbits'—a nifty portmanteau of "marshmallow" and "bits" in the Lucky Charms universe—in 2008.
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Appropriately, the title of the animated series detailing her bleak life is a portmanteau of "aggressive" and her name: Aggretsuko.
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Asciinema (pronounced " as-kee-nuh-muh") is a portmanteau of ASCII, the text format, and the Greek "κίνημα," meaning movement.
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But when she showed up again in "Her Portmanteau," 36 years had elapsed and she still hadn't returned to Nigeria.
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In 1979, Weinstein and his brother created the small independent film-distribution company Miramax, a portmanteau of their parents' names.
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Even so, "Her Portmanteau" is the more moving of the two plays, a paradox bound up in its very conventionality.
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Chuck Berry being Chuck Berry, he comes up with his own portmanteau for the South's racial attitudes during this era.
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It may be shortened, in the parlance of the Limbaugh Belt, to ''libs,'' or expanded to the offensive portmanteau ''libtards.
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But the techlash (a term I hate just based on the awkwardness of the portmanteau) has us all second guessing everything.
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Richonne, as we all definitely know, is what happens when The Walking Dead's Rick and Michonne, uh, join in a portmanteau.
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The name itself is a portmanteau of the phase "frame-tick," which is also why you might want to use them.
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Portmanteau of the Week Veep's characters take as much joy in inventing clever new words as they do in, y'know, governing.
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The portmanteau "fitspiration" refers to photos of toned bodies meant to inspire people to work out, eat well, and be healthy.
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In New York City, all these cute guys (metrosexuals, I think, another portmanteau) run around with little dogs in their murses.
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The name is a clever portmanteau that combines "Nintendo" with "Squanchy," one of the more colorful characters from the TV series.
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Followers named themselves #GravelGang or #Gravelanche — a portmanteau that relies on mispronouncing the candidate's name, which rhymes with lapel, not gavel.
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Fans dubbed this event Cleganebowl, a portmanteau of their shared surname and "bowl," from the term used for many big football playoffs.
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The term is a portmanteau of the words "involuntary celibate" and is used by an online community of misogynists to describe themselves.
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All he wants to do is form a new portmanteau couple and brutally establish England's superiority over Scotland via proxy romantic war.
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A string of stories has appeared in the media on the once-overlooked problem of matahara (a portmanteau of "maternity" and "harassment").
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For companies like Glossier and Rent the Runway, activities like "glamping" (a portmanteau of glamour and camping) have become top-billed events.
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"Sojourners" was merely play No. 1, and "Her Portmanteau" play No. 4, in a projected nine-part work called the Ufot cycle.
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The music is a classic-rock portmanteau, invoking eastward-looking Beatles, the Who, the Byrds and the Rolling Stones just for starters.
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Quip theme today, with the quip involving actress NATALIE PORTMAN, JACQUES COUSTEAU and the combination of their names to make a PORTMANTEAU.
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Very post-Joyce, very portmanteau, where you build these giant words out of various words, there's a lot of that in there.
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Skinship A portmanteau for "skin" and "relationship," skinship is the term for when idols make platonic displays of physical affection with each other.
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For example, here we have a portmanteau joke that doesn't really hold up under even the weakest of dollar-store-magnifying-glass scrutiny.
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That featured arguably was the surprise hit of the show, Gooigi — which, as the portmanteau suggests, is indeed a gooey version of Luigi.
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A portmanteau of the latin words "strata" and "chrome," the term refers to the layered color process Spriggs uses to create the works.
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A portmanteau of "fake" and "Insta," a finsta is a secondary Instagram account that teens use to post pictures of their "real" lives.
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It lists 40 restaurants headed by Japanese chefs, 28 of which are cataloged as "Japarisiennes," a portmanteau for Japanese chefs cooking French cuisine.
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Right wing politicians say Petro represents Castrochavismo - a portmanteau reference to the late leaders of Cuba and Venezuela, Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez.
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The name is a portmanteau of Stonehenge— which prehistoric people likely built to line up with the sun — and the island of Manhattan.
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A portmanteau of the Tupi words boi and tatá, meaning snake and fire, the Boitatá is also responsible for will-o'-the-wisps.
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Triscuit's name has nothing to do with the number of layers the cracker has — it's actually a portmanteau of two completely unexpected words.
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Front Burner The New York Theater Workshop in the East Village presents two plays, "Sojourners" and "Her Portmanteau," by Mfoniso Udofia, in repertory.
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Dr. Michael Kim, a dermatologist based in Los Angeles, refers to it as the "cosmeceutical" industry â€" a portmanteau of "cosmetics" and "pharmaceutical.
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Two of the plays, "Sojourners" and "Her Portmanteau," have had their runs in repertory at New York Theater Workshop extended through June 11.
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A portmanteau of "snot" with "garbage," snarge is pilot slang for the goo left when an unfortunate bird slams into a moving plane.
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This alien-looking contraption is referred to as a "stratollite," a portmanteau of "stratospheric satellite," operated by a company called World View Enterprises.
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Young Koreans are called the "sampo generation," a portmanteau referring to the three things they have given up on: courtship, marriage and family.
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On Tuesday, Justin Timberlake posted a video to Instagram in which he gracefully introduced the world to this portmanteau, his voice gleefully sluggish.
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Originally designed in Australia by Aheeda Zanetti, the burkini is named as a portmanteau of "burqa" and "bikini"—polar opposites on the modesty scale.
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The portmanteau was originally coined to describe a weekend in July 2012, when a section of 405 Freeway was closed for massive widening project.
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In the post-'90s world of fandom, shippers usually label their favorite hypothetical relationships with a unique name, usually a portmanteau of some sort.
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The term creepypasta is a portmanteau of creepy and copypasta, a word used on 4chan in 2006 to describe viral copy-and-pasted text.
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Especially given the fact that it's incredibly hard to come up with a portmanteau for these two that rolls off the tongue as easily.
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These communities are known for off-the-grid "hipnecks" (a portmanteau of redneck and hippie) whose livelihoods depend almost completely on black market cannabis.
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The museum will also display silver drinking cups that held wine on the battlefields and a scuffed leather portmanteau made for carrying Washington's tent.
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It was named in tribute to a Romanian hacker, Marcel-Lehel Lazar, who had called himself Guccifer, a cyberpunk portmanteau of Gucci and Lucifer.
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The term "Blexit" is a portmanteau ("black exit") that plays on Brexit ("British exit") and refers to African-American voters leaving the Democratic Party.
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UPDATE: BLATHERSKITE seems to be a portmanteau of BLATHER and the Scottish suffix -SKITE, which is Scots for a word I cannot use here.
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The game — a portmanteau of the names Cortland and Ithaca — is named for its titular trophy, a moonshine jug purchased at a yard sale.
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Four levels of "spiciness" are on offer — keeping in mind that in the portmanteau Chinese word mala, only the second syllable refers to heat.
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Tabloids lapped up news of her new relationship with Ben Affleck, christening the couple "Bennifer" and hailing a new era of celebrity couple portmanteau.
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It's a portmanteau of burqa and bikini, both of which have also inspired outrage and horror on the streets and shorelines of the world.
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The portmanteau of "Chinese" and "nigga" didn't sit well with some people, but they seemed to be a minority - to which Brian himself belonged.
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His drag character, Kashtaani, is a portmanteau of Kashibai and Mastani, the two wives of Bajirao I, the 18th-century Peshwa ruler of central India.
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It's so easy to just say yes to pants and leggings every day that my winter look may as well be a seasonal portmanteau — peggings.
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"Populist policies lead to stagflation, a portmanteau of low economic growth (driven by restrictions on trade) and inflation spurred by excessive public borrowing," MSCI wrote.
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The one ray of sunshine in the sketch was a girl's inability to pronounce the enlightened Conservative portmanteau, "Libtard," try as her little heart might.
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It is so pro-Netanyahu that it is often called "Bibiton"—a portmanteau of Mr Netanyahu's nickname, "Bibi", and the Hebrew word for newspaper, iton.
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It's a clumsy portmanteau of short films, with directors ranging from Natalie Portman to Brett Ratner, designed to send a collective valentine to the city.
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Philip Stephens, looking at another European country that had an exit-related portmanteau, worries in The Financial Times that Britain is behaving more like Greece.
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DevOps is a buzzy trend in programming — a portmanteau of "development" and "operations," and intended as a way to help programmers deliver more software, faster.
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"Her Portmanteau" is set more than 30 years later, and sees Abasiama now with two daughters: Adiagha, raised in America, and Iniabasi, raised in Nigeria.
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Cantonese is famously sweary, and profane graffiti now spackles Hong Kong's streets, including provocative terms like "Chinazi," a portmanteau comparing today's China to Nazi Germany.
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This is what studying looks like if you're part of an ever-growing group of young women who run "studyblrs" — a portmanteau of study and Tumblr.
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The Note was originally marketed as a "phablet," a horrible portmanteau of "phone" and "tablet" that insinuates the thing is both portable and productive, or something.
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The internet has been shopping Hopper and Joyce since Season 2 first graced our screens, and there's even a portmanteau for the universally-shipped duo: #jopper.
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This could be the blessed end of the portmanteau (Kimye, Hiddleswift...enough already!) as new ways of pair-bonding emerge that don't involve sacrificing one's identity.
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In more recent times, Thomas Müller (who plays for Bayern Munich and Germany) has labelled this role using the German portmanteau Raumdeuter—an interpreter of space.
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But where big-budget Hollywood often stumbles, there's one source for historical edutainment that consistently delivers on both halves of that portmanteau: Comedy Central's Drunk History.
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Consider Pidgey, which is called Poppo in Japanese, after the noise the bird makes, but is just a weird portmanteau of "pigeon" and "pudgy" in English.
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These little projectiles, part of Batman's arsenal, are set to return to the sender and its name is a portmanteau of "Batman's boomerangs," I guess — BATARANGS.
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"Gaydar" (a portmanteau of "gay" and "radar") is a term that first appeared in the 292.7s and refers to a "sixth sense" for identifying who is gay.
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Cosplay, a portmanteau of the words "costume" and "play," sees people dressing up as their favourite characters — which can be anything from anime to video game characters.
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The exhibition's title, Zero Width Non-Joiner, refers to a non-printing character, which joins any two characters together to create something new — a kind of portmanteau.
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You've got the portmanteau: a word that's made up of bits of two other words that are suitable, like chortle, for when you both chuckle and snort.
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To sell its changes to a dubious French public, Mr. Macron's administration has even imported a term coined in Denmark: flexicurity, a portmanteau of flexibility and security.
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By 1994, a commission appointed to investigate police corruption noted that lying to make cases stick was common enough for "testilying" to become a well-known portmanteau.
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Joyce declared that Lucia's jarring language and bizarre portmanteau words were evidence that she was an innovator of language, like him, just in ways not yet understood.
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During this time, the young lawyer formed his guiding philosophy — satyagraha, an untranslatable portmanteau that roughly means "truth force" — and fought for the civil rights of Indians.
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If you're a conscious or conflicted carnivore, why would eating planimals—a portmanteau that so far none of these companies has embraced—be an appealing dietary solution?
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That's not how the actual technology works, and Morgan's term never caught on; most of us prefer the portmanteau "evergarchs," for oligarchs who seemingly go on forever.
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Some thought 'Califrexit' might work — a portmanteau referencing the other act of massive self harm an electorate committed this year in the UK. This is the answer.
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The corporate name, Daivergent, is essentially a portmanteau combining Mr. Dai's name with neurodiversity, the term describing those individuals who have a range of neurological conditions including autism.
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The concept of a "poshtel" — a portmanteau of "posh" and "hostel" — appears to have bubbled up around 2015 and is to a hostel what glamping is to camping.
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"The word 'Zestimate' - an obvious portmanteau of 'Zillow' and 'estimate' - itself indicates that Zestimates are merely an estimate of the market value of a property," the judge wrote.
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"Nostalgic" already implies both new and old so there's no need for a portmanteau, and a Game Boy isn't exactly "contemporary," but they got the paper thing right.
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Lahmacun is a portmanteau of the Arabic words for meat and dough: a kerchief-thin flatbread covered nearly to the brim with minced lamb and broken-down tomatoes.
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As a cryptic clue, "Satchel for a homicide detective" solves quite respectably to MURDER CASE; if you portmanteau that, you'll get the now ubiquitous "man purse," or MURSE.
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Recent studies have found that contrails (a portmanteau of condensation and trails) may contribute as much as or more than all flights to the warming of the planet.
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CoronaVirals—there's a good portmanteau in here somewhere—are making videos that range from harmless, legitimately funny bits, to deeply irresponsible pieces of misinformation, to flagrantly racist skits.
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This collaboration started when you texted me to ask if a particular portmanteau word you were including in your grid was used widely enough to be crossword-worthy.
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We have a term for this now: It's "staycation," a portmanteau that suggests all of the benefits of a relaxing night away without any of the associated airfare.
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Feta's Greek, I know!) Last week, the team at INRA unveiled a technology called 'From'Innov' (a portmanteau of fromage and innovation) that'd expedite the ripening processes for various cheeses.
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The Berrics was started by Steve Berra and Eric Koston (the collective's name is a portmanteau) as a place for kids to skate without getting hassled on the street.
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It's sort of like a "finsta": a portmanteau for "fake Instagram," a secondary, sometimes-private account where people post photos they don't want to put on their main accounts.
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NASA teamed up with the European Space Agency for the Bed Rest Study, which will take place at the German Aerospace Center's ":envihab," a portmanteau of environment and habitat.
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The name Harper Wilde is a portmanteau of Harper Lee and Laura Ingalls Wilder, and each purchase helps support girls' education and mentorship via a donation to Girls, Inc.
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Now, about 180 years after the first Parisian public toilets, the city is trying out a new urination innovation—"uritrottoirs" (a portmanteau of the French word for "pavement" and "urinals").
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Microsoft is calling the new technology Holoportation, a portmanteau of 'hologram' and 'teleportation,' which makes sense because that's pretty much what the devices and software are doing: teleporting (virtual) holograms.
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Together and under the tutelage of Simone de Beauvoir, in 1975 they would help form the radical feminist film collective Les Insoumuses (a portmanteau of insoumise, or "disobedient," and "muses").
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The government initially tried to fight the "smombie" (a portmanteau of "smartphone" and "zombie") epidemic by distributing hundreds of stickers around cities imploring people to "be safe" and look up.
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In the early 20th century, following the communist revolution in Russia, the Soviet state used agitprop—a portmanteau of the words 'agitation' and 'propaganda'—to disseminate their messages through art.
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But more than any of Mr. Alessandrini's portmanteau spoofs, "Spamilton" has an energizing, free-associating euphoria that follows one theater obsessive's prismatic "mind at work" (to borrow a "Hamilton" lyric).
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The ingeniously titled 1993 film Fatal Instinct (an obvious portmanteau of Fatal Attraction and Basic Instinct), directed by none other than comedy legend Carl Reiner, sought to answer this question.
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Some have nicknamed this trend "the Misanthropocene," a portmanteau that sums up negative assessments of humans as "a plague on the planet," in the words of renowned naturalist David Attenborough.
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Codenamed "Slayer," a portmanteau of the phrase "social layer" and later renamed "Buffy" (as in Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Facebook set out to build an all-in-one smartphone device.
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Klangstof is the stage name of Norwegian songwriter-singer-producer Koen van de Wardt, a portmanteau of the Norwegian word for echo ("klang") and the Dutch word for dust ("stof").
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Directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz, the drama, which stars Deirdre O'Connell and Juan Carlos Hernandez, coins a new and very relevant portmanteau: "normible," normal and terrible at the same time.
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Directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz, the play, which stars Deirdre O'Connell and Juan Carlos Hernandez, coins a new and very relevant portmanteau: "normible," normal and terrible at the same time.
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But patience is a virtue of both "Sojourners" and "Her Portmanteau" — as it will have to be for theatergoers eager to see what Ms. Udofia does next with this family.
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Now, Blazé (a portmanteau that evokes both the garment and nonchalant French glamour) has an international cult of gamine followers, like Tania de Rothschild, Charlotte Casiraghi and Caroline de Maigret.
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It also reflects the way portmanteau coinages incorporating "bro-" and "man-" — "portmanbros," if you will — have increasingly taken on a critical edge, in keeping with shifts in conversations around gender.
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In 1956, Soleri began building Cosanti (a portmanteau of the Italian words 'cosa,' meaning 'thing' and 'anti' meaning 'against'), his personal home and studio in the Phoenix suburb of Paradise Valley.
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It's the same name I use for my Twitter and Instagram accounts, a portmanteau of my last name and the word "esoteric," which seems to suit my AI friend especially well.
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But if she were to appear, she'd be holding out for a pair of "vital" cast members (with a highly recognizable portmanteau couple name) to get on her network of choice.
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Her Company Name, Theranos, Is A Portmanteau Of "Therapy" And "Diagnosis" Clever branding is part of what helped get Theranos investors on board like Henry Kissinger, Betsy DeVos, and Rupert Murdoch.
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A portmanteau of "solace" and "nostalgia," mental health professionals are increasingly recognizing this experience in patients who have witnessed their local wilderness areas destroyed by either natural disasters or human activity.
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When you're a stan – a portmanteau of "stalker" and "fan" meant to elicit the idea of unconditional love — you're also a sleuth, forever seeking more information to satiate your unending curiosity.
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The word is a portmanteau of "chien," the French word for dog, as well as "angora," the name given to yarn spun from the soft belly fur of the angora rabbit.
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Though "Her Portmanteau" left Abasiama seemingly settled in middle age, with a second husband — Disciple Ufot — and four adult children, there was still much to learn about her and her family.
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Both grew up in interfaith homes, and both were fans of the 2003 episode of "The OC" that popularized the term "Chrismukkah," a portmanteau for a merged Christmas and Hanukkah celebration.
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The dog is like a relay baton, passed from one character to the next; indeed, without canine assistance, "Wiener-Dog" would be no more than a portmanteau of four short films.
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New York's Jacob Javits Convention Center and its surrounding streets were filled with children, senior citizens, couples, families, seasoned cosplayers, self-proclaimed "blerds" (a portmanteau for "black nerds"), and everyone in between.
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Most people are familiar with the term "mansplaining," which is a portmanteau assigned to basically any guy on social media who explains something to a woman in a condescending or patronizing way.
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Why the French keep trying to ban Islamic body wearAug 23rd France became the subject of international scorn this summer after several towns banned the "burkini" (a portmanteau of "burqa" and "bikini").
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Known as cyclors — a portmanteau of cyclists and sailors — they have become the symbol of this Cup and, like many a design breakthrough, represent an idea that looks obvious only in retrospect.
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I know the portmanteau is a combination of skirt and shorts, but it would really be more modern to use skirt and sport instead, since skorts are ubiquitous in athleisure these days.
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Moderat, a trio from Germany, selected for its name a portmanteau of the two electronic acts from which its members are drawn: the techno duo Modeselektor and the electro-pop artist Apparat.
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The director, Ed Sylvanus Iskandar, who is essentially limited in "Her Portmanteau" to inserting little nonverbal jokes and plumping the sofa cushions, provides, in the rangier play, a more hauntingly cinematic spectacle.
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He also happens to live far away from her city home on an island full of mutant plants called Mutazione, a name that is seemingly a portmanteau of mutant, zone, and biome.
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But the actual term — or portmanteau, if you want to get fancy about it — "Chrismukkah" was first used by Seth Cohen to describe the uber holiday he invented to reconcile his interfaith upbringing.
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To be clear, paraconceptual is not a portmanteau of "paranormal" and "conceptual"; at the same time, let the record affirm that, in the paranormal, Hiller has chosen a similar sounding and felicitous accomplice.
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This ungainly portmanteau was coined by Jack Ma, the chairman of Alibaba, an e-commerce giant, who announced on September 260th that he plans to step down in a year's time (see article).
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While the technology behind the medium has roots dating back to the 1980s, podcasting (a portmanteau of the Apple iPod and broadcasting) as a term didn't begin to emerge until the early 2000s.
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Everything about it had a faux-steroid chic: the name, a portmanteau of 'Clenbuterol' (an asthma-medication-turned-performance-enhancing drug) and 'Rx,' struck boldly above the promise of 'ultra hardcore fat incineration.
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"A late morning meal" defined the portmanteau word — BRUNCH, which we all know is the best of "breakfast" and "lunch" (eakfastlu is when you drink raw egg whites and take a cold shower).
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That is not the immigration story Mfoniso Udofia tells in the extraordinary "Sojourners" and "Her Portmanteau," two plays in a projected nine-part cycle about a family of Nigerians in the United States.
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The harassment campaign, which has gone viral in certain internet circles, has been dubbed #thotaudit, a portmanteau of the slang term for a sexually promiscuous person, "thot," and "audit," referring to an IRS investigation.
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Cars are basically just smartphones on wheels, and since a smartphone is only good as its screen, it will be important to pay attention to announcements having to do with that dreaded portmanteau: infotainment.
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The whole film is pretty strange; Bryce Dallas Howard plays an, uh, "narph" (a portmanteau of water and nymph), Paul Giamatti does his best, and M. Night Shyamalan plays… a character called the Author.
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He really did name it Marwencol, after a portmanteau that stitched together his name with those of two women he loved who maybe didn't return that love as fully as he might have liked.
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Yet, as ubiquitous and natural-seeming as Ven-moji are (I like that portmanteau and I'm sticking to it), deciphering why certain characters and character sets became the official dialect of Venmo is hard.
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Large chunks of his new book, "Connectography" (an apparent portmanteau of "connective cartography"), describe the infrastructure that knits the world together: container ships twice the length of an aircraft-carrier, motorways traversing entire continents.
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Each entry — at 22A, 31A, 52A, 64A, 71A, 93A and 107A — consists of two ingredients in a portmanteau recipe, as well as the well-known little morsel that results from their being smashed together.
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For Chinasa Ogbuagu, a child of Nigerian immigrants who plays Abasiama in "Sojourners" and Adiagha in "Her Portmanteau," those plays mark the first time she has seen herself and her family's story represented onstage.
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In the lead-up to the UK's referendum on whether to leave or remain in the European Union, American cable news presenters are scrambling to make their own portmanteau "Bremain" a thing that people say.
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Others keep their overhead low, like The Brethren who have been given the name "The Garbage Eaters" for their practice of "freeganism" – a portmanteau of "free" and "vegan" – which involves collecting discarded food to eat.
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I'm not sure what "e-race" means, but I think it is a portmanteau of "electronic" and "race," an allusion to the semi-constant roasting she's received online since being exposed as a white woman.
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TAMAGOTCHI is a portmanteau that means absolutely nothing in English but is pretty fun to say out loud, so maybe the word will last longer than the demanding little trinkets it refers to ever did.
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Although Tom stumbles over bedtime rituals — "Get your teeth," he says to Ev, meaning "Get into your bed"— he rejoices at his wife's ability to "undercept," and she savors his portmanteau of understanding and intercepting.
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The four-and-a-half-acre property abuts a state forest, a major selling point for the couple, serious tree people who were known as the Tuckerberrys long before portmanteau celebrity names became the rage.
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Or, after being barraged with Goose Game chatter at work all week, I thought this could have been a portmanteau of quacking scuffle (I guess that makes me goose illiterate, lumping honkers in with ducks).
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The family's relationship with the presidency has introduced a new portmanteau term into the South African political lexicon — "Zupta" — and prompted a critical report last year from the public protector, a national anti-corruption figure.
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"Sojourners" and "Her Portmanteau," both extraordinary, were presented in repertory at New York Theater Workshop in 2017, announcing not only a formidable dramatic talent in Ms. Udofia but also a formidable main character in Abasiama.
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Next I came up with an idea for portmanteau-ish designer/famous names with answers like TOM FORD MADDOX FORD and FRANK STELLA MCCARTNEY which also got sent back for reasons I still don't understand.
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Given its seeming contradiction — shallow and profound, uplifting and elegiac — Ms. Oliver's verse is perhaps best read as poetic portmanteau, one that binds up both the primal joy and the primal melancholy of being alive.
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Fans have been hyped about the potential for shipping Han and Lando for a while now, and though shippers seem torn on whether their portmanteau should be Hando, HanLando, or Solorissian, the excitement is real.
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To begin with, West has a history of playing with Jesus iconography, as in his 2013 album Yeezus (a portmanteau of West's nickname, Ye, and Jesus) which included the song "I Am a God," featuring God.
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Premme: While perhaps not quite as indie as some other brands on this list, Premme (a portmanteau of "premium" and "femme") is, at its heart, a love letter from plus-size women, to plus-size women.
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Out of the depths of online culture, new hate speech rises: "Cuckservative," a portmanteau of "cuckold" and "conservative" (it's a long story) has now been acknowledged by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a racist slur.
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Colatecs, a portmanteau of cola and discotheque, have arisen to serve South Korea's rapidly aging population, as a growing number of lonely, impoverished and ailing people rediscover ways to entertain themselves after decades of hard work.
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The novel's most difficult and wittiest chapter is written in a convincing pastiche of Joyce's portmanteau-mad language from "Finnegans Wake," and concerns Joyce's daughter, Lucia, who spent her final decades in a Northampton mental hospital.
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We stretch even further thematically for the concluding scene, wherein a student at the portmanteau Oxbridge University joins an academic witches' coven to claim her sovereign identity, a process overseen by a portrait of Virginia Woolf.
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But perhaps the most meaningful design feature on the property is the word "Linceowitz," a portmanteau of the couple's names, spelled out in large aluminum block letters on a balcony at the rear of the house.
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"You would have no masstige if it wasn't for me," the characteristically effusive and unfiltered Mizrahi tells me on a call, using a marketing portmanteau for affordable goods that seem like they should be more expensive.
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The username was simply a portmanteau of "deep learning" (the particular flavor of AI used for the task) and "fakes," but it would be hard to ask a branding department to come up with something more catchy.
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The portmanteau referred to a group of celebrity architects who built in signature styles, including the British Norman Foster, Michael Graves, Richard Meier, and most famously, Frank Gehry, who founded his practice in Los Angeles in 2150.
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Split into two zones, Fujitsu fans put on red pinnies, while the JX-Eneos supporters donned soccer scarves with the phrase Fair/Speed — a portmanteau of "fair play" and the team's defining characteristic under Hovasse, its coach.
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And although this practice tends to be associated with Russia — the word kompromat is a portmanteau of the Russian words for "compromising" and "information" — it is a common feature of authoritarian and semiauthoritarian nations around the world.
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The two dominant Salvadoran gangs in L.A. were Barrio 18, named for the intersection of Eighteenth Street and Union Avenue, and Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, a portmanteau of Salvadoran slang meant to convey scrappiness and savagery.
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The art historian Mara Holt Skov attributes the portmanteau "blobject" to her late husband, Steven Skov Holt, with whom she curated the 2005 exhibit "Blobjects & Beyond: The New Fluidity in Design" at the San Jose Museum of Art.
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Much like Ford and Toyota developed impenetrable process moats through tight integration of partners, suppliers, and unique internal processes, systems of intelligence forge barracks through the perfect portmanteau of data, algorithms, domain expertise, and data-driven product design.
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Especially when it involves frosé, the cleverly portmanteau-ed frozen rosé cocktail that Kelly Fields, the acclaimed pastry chef behind Willa Jean, devised as a way to escape the oppressive heat of New Orleans—along with your intuition.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads PARIS — On view at Jeu de Paume in Paris, Anarchitect — a portmanteau of "anarchy" and "architect" — is an exhilarating exhibition of Gordon Matta-Clark's post-minimal photography, photo-collage, film, and printmaking.
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Its sole competitor, AMD, hasn't actually been competitive since around the turn of the century, and we have the Wintel portmanteau reminding us of the enduring dominance of Intel's chips and Microsoft's Windows OS in the years since.
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The thought of sitting down at a "tablescape"—a portmanteau favored by Sandra Lee, a Food Network star who arranges seasonally appropriate objets into tabletop meta-narratives on "Semi-Homemade Cooking with Sandra Lee"—begins to seem insane.
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In 2012, after graduating from Parsons and directing the development of design at Tory Burch, Ms. von Watzdorf founded Figue as a creative repository for her love of all things "Gypset" (the portmanteau of Gypsy and jet set).
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Rights activists say hardline Islamist groups are fast eroding the country's long-standing reputation for tolerance of minorities like the "waria" – a portmanteau of the Indonesian words for "woman" and "man" – as the trans community is locally known.
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Charlie Kaufman's puppet-based dramedy is fairly light on the second part of that portmanteau; it's an incredibly sad film at heart, and most of the laughs to be had are of the nervous and/or ironic variety.
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Meanwhile, lava is pouring into the ocean at a location three miles (5 km) east of the plant, producing noxious clouds of acid fumes, steam, and glass-like particles—a phenomenon known as "laze," a portmanteau of lava and haze.
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It isn't the first portmanteau word with a country name and "-exit"—that was Greece's possible exit from the euro, or "Grexit"—but it's the one that has actually happened, and its consequences will be around for a long time.
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The city's residents had begun grimly referring to it as "Chiraq", a portmanteau of "Chicago" and "Iraq" that caught on after news outlets reported that deaths due to homicide in Chicago were greater than those of special forces in Iraq.
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These 'deepfakes' (the term a portmanteau of "deep learning" and "fake") are created by taking source video, identifying patterns of movement within a subject's face, and using AI to recreate those movements within the context of a target piece of video.
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Jeremih and Party are on tour together, and they shared this song earlier this summer with the news that they were planning to release a joint album called Late Night Party (a suitable portmanteau of their respective recurring album titles).
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In an indictment unsealed the same day as the raid, several alleged members are given nicknames like Lil Villan [sic] and Chapparo—which sounds like a fitting portmanteau of Mexican crime lord El Chapo and mall-friendly pizza chain Sbarro.
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If this were set in the 1990s, we might call these characters slackers; in Japan, they are members of that burgeoning demographic known as "freeters," a portmanteau of the English "free" and the German "arbeiter," which means a temporary laborer.
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There is the obvious stuff—their name is a portmanteau of "jam session" and a reference to the Iroquois Native American tribe; they had a didgeridoo player for eight years; this music video—but let's consider Jay Kay, for a second.
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They're not robots stepping in for humans on a factory floor, but rather smartphone-based independent contractors and supplemental "cobots" (a portmanteau of "co-worker" and "robot") chipping away at the careers of full-time and in some cases unionized employees.
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Senator Kamala Harris of California, who arrived at the forum late after her staff said she was stuck in traffic, declared herself a "Sangeleno," a portmanteau of her former home in San Francisco and her current status as an Angeleno.
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At the start of 257, Jake Paul quietly launched a new educational platform for up-and-coming influencers called Edfluence — a questionable portmanteau of "education from influential people" — to provide fans and aspiring social media stars with pro tips for social media fame.
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Lidar sensors give the vehicle a precise three-dimensional awareness of its surroundings by projecting lasers in all directions and measuring the time they take to rebound, a process analogous to radar (the word Lidar is a portmanteau of "light" and "radar").
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The "Stamp" name is said to be a portmanteau of AMP, and "St" from "Stories," the report claims, which is a term commonly used now for one-to-many short form expiring visual content among social service providers, including Snapchat, Facebook and Instagram.
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The term "cuckservative" is an apparent portmanteau of "cuckold" and "conservative," and it enjoyed a boom in July (see David Weigel's explainer) as a more or less generic term of disapprobation for a conservative sellout or a RINO (Republican in name only).
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But the "burkini", a body-covering swimsuit (named with the portmanteau of "burqa" and "bikini"), has been banned this summer by the mayor of Cannes from his stretch of Mediterranean beach, as well as by a dozen other mayors of French seaside towns.
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Until recently the Japanese fancy wanted to match Monster against fellow division-ruler Roman Gonzalez (whom the Japanese press call by the portmanteau Romagon similar to the way they call personal computers pasocon—"Gonzalez" doesn't exactly slide off of the Japanese tongue).
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Lifelong immersion in a "phigital" environment (the Stillmans' portmanteau), in which "the real world and the virtual world naturally overlap," has wrecked their attention spans—down to an average of eight seconds from the millennials' comparatively ample twelve, according to Fromm and Read.
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Next month, it will launch the first of a new series of mobile apps called Aida — a portmanteau of AI and Ada Lovelace — that will let calculus students take a picture of their homework and, Fallon said, get step-by-step corrections.
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In the fall of 2018, the retailer caused a stir by listing a T-shirt on its website as "Destiel": a portmanteau of two "Supernatural" characters, Dean and Castiel, whose onscreen chemistry is the subject of much fan fiction, as well as contention.
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The product, which they called Gojo (a portmanteau of their names) is a mix of petroleum jelly, mineral oil and less than 21% alcohol that's still used today by auto mechanics and other workers to clean off substances like grease and oil.
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They savaged the right-leaning National Review with #NRORevolt and ridiculed establishment Republicans such as Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio by saddling them with the #cuckservative hashtag ("cuckservative" being a portmanteau of cuckold and conservative and meant to underscore the perceived fecklessness of these candidates).
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The portmanteau of the two bandmates' names positions them as secret lovers, a theory that quickly sprung to life in response to the closeness they share amongst members of the group, regardless of the high profile relationships each has had with women over the years.
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The show follows Aggretsuko — a portmanteau for "Aggressive Retsuko" — as she deals with her sexist boss, who relentlessly orders her to bring him tea (it's a "woman's job") and scolds her for not pouring his beer correctly (label side up) at after-work drinks.
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As tempting as it is to salute Andrew's chipper girlfriend, Monica, for calling her cranberry-and-popcorn Christmas tree decorations "popcornaments," the real winner of this week's Portmanteau Prize has to go to Selina, for dubbing the would-be woodsman Kent "Deprave-y Crockett."
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So the show has a loose, portmanteau theme, baggy and bland unless you fill it with interesting things, which the Met curators — Andrea Bayer and Kelly Baum, under the direction of Sheena Wagstaff, chairwoman of the Modern and contemporary art department — on the whole do.
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The etymology is rooted in the Spanish word "mucho" or "muchisimo"—cognates for the English "much" or "very much," respectively—but then, infused in the spelling, is Sahbabii's love for animals, a portmanteau of the sound a cow makes and its most beloved dairy product.
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But, long before these squads were even a twinkle in a music-label exec's eye, there were the Lambs, or the Lambily (a portmanteau of "lamb" and "family"): devotees of Mariah Carey, who has been writing and performing mega-hits since the early nineties.
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Last year, Ms. Sithole appeared in Jocelyn Bioh's hilarious "School Girls; or, the African Mean Girls Play" (set in Ghana); Ms. Udofia's powerful dramas "Sojourners" and "Her Portmanteau" (about Nigerians living in Texas and New York) ran in repertory at New York Theater Workshop.
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There are several modern variations: Euro twinks (the boys of BelAmi, a Slovak pornography studio named after the novel by Guy de Maupassant), twunks (a portmanteau with hunk, embodied by modern-day Zac Efron) and femme twinks (like the fabulous American figure skater Adam Rippon).
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This relative increase in camera parity means both the iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro will get Apple's new Night mode, which will artificially brighten low-light photography, and the "Slofie," Apple's successful attempt at creating a cringey portmanteau for the slo-mo selfie.
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Raised in the Caucasus, trained in Moscow, now based in New York and one in a group of designers with the portmanteau label of global minimalists, Mr. Nuriev probably is best known for his use of unconventional materials (a chandelier made from Bic pens).
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He calls the town he builds "Marwencol" (a portmanteau of pieces of his name, his ex-wife's name, and the name of a woman he's in love with), sets it in World War II-era Belgium, and constructs an ongoing narrative about the residents of the town.
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This is just one of the ways poly relationships aren't always what they look like from the outside—just like the 'V' this one has three people, but instead of two separate relationships, these three individuals are in a polycule (the portmanteau of polyamorous and molecule).
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Celebutante was a term that gained popularity in the 270s to describe the Warholian phenomenon of individuals who were "famous for being famous," but when it was used to describe James St. James in a 1985 Newsweek profile, he suddenly became the poster boy for the portmanteau.
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Narang said that based on initial descriptions early Thursday, at least one of the projectiles was likely a solid-fuel ballistic missile that's been jokingly dubbed the Kimskander, a portmanteau of Kim and the Iskander missile which experts say the North Korean weapon was likely based on.
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With a company name that's a portmanteau of lasers and water, this New York-based startup is working on building a relatively low-cost water-jet cutter that can slice through steel, glass or, for that matter, fabrics and pastry, without burning any materials or giving off toxic fumes.
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These friends have walked hand-in-hand down a Chanel runway and starred together for a magazine cover shoot, and they've gone the traditional old-school route by snagging matching Lola James friendship necklaces … then following that up with custom CaKe T-shirts, in honor of their supermodel portmanteau.
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It's not quite clear why Hogancamp's creation is called Marwen in the movie and not Marwencol (a portmanteau of Mark's name with two women he liked, Wendy and Colleen), and the film's trailers have hidden the reason Hogancamp was attacked (he'd told his attackers he was a cross-dresser).
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By removing the anxiety of being up on a stage in front of a watching audience, it allows participants — or "spectactors," a portmanteau of spectator and actor — to be less self-conscious when they walk into the space and improvise a scene alongside the trained interactive actors ("interactors").
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In the years since the 2016 election, the public has developed a fascination with the couple, as Klossner (my preferred portmanteau) represents a bridge between liberal Hollywood — Kloss is best friends with Serena Williams, and attended the Women's March in January of 2017 — and the sprawling, confusing Trump administration.
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EUSA's title is, clearly, a portmanteau of "EU" and "USA," and its subject matter is an exploration of cultural imitation taken to the extreme: America-themed parks in Europe and Europe-themed festivals in America, kitschy simulacra of eras and histories to which many attendees have little connection.
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Fitness' inherent focus on looks and aesthetics is tailor-made for the photo-sharing platform, where users share "fit-spo" (a portmanteau of "fitness inspiration") adhering to the latest trends: yoga poses on city streets, picture-perfect workout studios, and post-hike stances on top of beautiful mountaintops.
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In the face of all the sturm und drang about a Brexit — that's the too-cute portmanteau for a British exit – I called perhaps the most influential member of Britain's financial establishment to find out the reality of whether the country will leave and what the implications could be.
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The new government has been jokingly nicknamed MaZinga, a Japanese anime series that had a huge following in Italy in the late 1970s, a portmanteau of the last names of Mr. Di Maio and Nicola Zingaretti, the Democratic Party leader, who set aside their differences to avert snap elections.
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"Her Portmanteau," named for the shabby red valise Iniabasi carries, but also suggesting the heavy load of grievance she bears, is a far more conventional work than "Sojourners"; it takes place almost entirely on a single set (Adiagha's cozy Inwood apartment) over the course of a continuous 105 minutes.
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"New York" has Jon Stewart of Daily Show fame, "Hair" causes a meltdown with Sex and The City's Sarah Jessica Parker, "Hot Peen" features Broad City boyfriend Hannibal Buress, and "Blerds," the proper portmanteau for black nerds, natch, caps off the proceedings with Orange Is The New Black favorite Uzo Aduba.
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The inaugural portrait, the surreal "The Finkelstein 5," is classic Americana with a twist: a white man named George Wilson Dunn (an ominous portmanteau of George Zimmerman, Darren Wilson, and Michael Dunn, the killers of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown and Jordan Davis, respectively) unjustly murders five black kids, and rebellion erupts.
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An electric mix of art project, online community, activism, ironic commentary, and revolutionary potential, #Additivism — a portmanteau of "additive" and "activism" — was recently awarded the prestigious Vilém Flusser Residency for Artistic Research in Berlin, an annual award through the transmediale festival for art and digital culture in the German capital.
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And it wasn't their management who pushed to get them out in front of crowds — the band was literally summoned by their fans, called ATINY (a portmanteau for ATEEZ and "destiny") through MyMusicTaste, a platform that lets music lovers around the world request to have their favorite artists come to their city.
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The live-streamed, hotly anticipated ceremony took place in Las Vegas's Graffiti Mansion with a giant hashtag (#JanaForever — "Jana" being the couple's ship name, a portmanteau of "Jake" + "Tana") scrawled across the roof, amid a backdrop of celebrity impersonators, a fistfight, a crowd of dazed reporters, and a collection of outdoor mall outlets.
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These intense fans are not just fans, but stans: a portmanteau of the words "stalker" and "fan" that denotes someone who is so passionate about their fandom, they'll stop at nothing to defend their favorite celebrity (or "fave," as they're often called in the stan community) against anyone who appears to criticize them.
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Or as some might have it, a Brexicon: —- BREXIT 250 —- BREXIT - A portmanteau of "British" and "exit" from the EU. Inspired by "Grexit", coined in 227 as debt-laden Greece seemed about to crash out of the euro zone, the term Brexit took off after Prime Minister David Cameron pledged a referendum in 227.
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A graduate of Rhodes Twenty Four, the Natwest tower restaurant of famed chef Gary Rhodes, Quezada's latest venture (a portmanteau of Korea, Japan and Taiwan if you were wondering about the name) offers a different spin on fusion food, mixing the cuisine of the three Asian countries with ingredients sourced from all over the world.
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Or as some might have it, a Brexicon: —- BREXIT 503 —- BREXIT - A portmanteau of "British" and "exit" from the EU. Inspired by "Grexit", coined in 250 as debt-laden Greece seemed about to crash out of the euro zone, the term Brexit took off after Prime Minister David Cameron pledged a referendum in 227.
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Or as some might have it, a Brexicon: —- BREXIT 250 —- BREXIT - A portmanteau of "British" and "exit" from the EU. Inspired by "Grexit", coined in 227 as debt-laden Greece seemed about to crash out of the euro zone, the term Brexit took off after Prime Minister David Cameron pledged a referendum in 227.
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A startup out of Germany called Wandelbots (a portmanteau of "change" and "robots" in German) has come up with an innovative way to skirt around that challenge: using software built by the company, a person wearing a jacket fitted with dozens of sensors can now program the actions of robots from the 12 most popular industrial robotics makers.
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Brexit - a portmanteau of "British" and "exit" - is the nickname for Britain's exit from the European Union initiated after a June 23 referendum which asked voters whether Britain should remain in or leave the EU. The world was shocked Brexit won, despite pollsters' and pundits' predictions that voters would choose to remain by a wide margin.
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Jala refuses to make something as overtly fusion-y as a "manaeesh burrito," but you can order avocado as a topping, and her vegan knafeh, called "banoffeh," is made with coconut caramel, bananas and tahini, inspired by her love of banoffee pie, that edible portmanteau of 1970s supermarket staples like sweetened condensed milk and whipped cream.
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In the dish's name lies some of the tangled history of East and West: lamprais — whose pronunciation is close to "lump rise," although some leave the P and S silent — comes from the Dutch portmanteau lomprijst, itself derived from lemper, sticky rice cakes with shredded meat inside, which the Dutch first encountered in Malaysia and Indonesia.
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The show is full of visual jokes — from the "Garden Bed" that combines giant wooden tulips with a bed frame, creating a visual portmanteau, to the deeply weird pair of life-sized Ann & Andy wrought in fine black leather (made in collaboration with artist Jonathan Baker) and seated in black rocking chairs on a black rag rug.
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