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Word Formation List of English Blend Words advertainment, from advertising and entertainment advertorial, from advertising and

editorial affluenza, from affluence and influenza alphanumeric, from alphabetic and numeric anacronym, from anachronism and acronym apronym, from appropriate and acronym automagic(al), from automatic and magic(al) backronym, from back and acronym bit, from binary and digit blaxploitation, from black and exploitation Bollywood, from Bombay and Hollywood Bootylicious, from booty and delicious boxercise, from boxing and exercise britcom, from British and comedy brunch, from breakfast and lunch cellophane, from cellulose and diaphane chortle, from chuckle and snort cineplex, from cinema and complex (building) cocacolonization, from Coca-Cola and colonization codec, from coder and decoder cryptex, from cryptology and codex cyborg, from cybernetic and organism dancercise, from dance and exercise datacasting, from data and broadcasting Diamat, from Dialectical Materialism digerati, from digital and literati digipeater, from digital and repeater docudrama, from documentary and drama docusoap, from documentary and soap opera dramality, from dramatic and reality dramedy, from drama and comedy dumbfound, from dumb and confound ebonics, from ebony and phonics ecoteur, from ecological and saboteur edutainment, from education and entertainment emoticon, from emotion and icon faction, from fact and fiction fantabulous, from fantastic and fabulous frankenfood, from Frankenstein and food frankenword, from Frankenstein and word fraudience, from fraud and audience freeware, from free and software ginormous, from gigantic and enormous

greenwash, from green and whitewash guesstimate, from guess and estimate infomercial, from information and commercial infotainment, from information and entertainment intercom, from internal and communication Internet, from inter and network jazzercise, from jazz and exercise knowledgebase, from knowledge and database malware, from malicious and software mantastic, from man and fantastic melodrama, from melody and drama mobisode, from mobile (phone) and episode mockney, from mock and Cockney mockumentary, from mock and documentary modem, from modulator and demodulator moped, from motor and pedal motel, from motor and hotel multiplex, from multiple and cineplex Muppet, from marionette and puppet napalm, from naphthene and palmitate netiquette, from Internet and etiquette netizen, from Internet and citizen Oxbridge, from Oxford and Cambridge paratroops, from parachute and troops pixel, from picture and element pizzone, from pizza and calzone portmanteau, from the French porte (carry) and manteau (coat) posistor, from positive and thermistor procrasturbate, from procrastinate and masturbate prosumer, from either producer or professional and consumer qubit, from quantum and bit rockumentary, from rock and documentary sexcellent, from sex and excellent sexercise, from sex and exercise sexploitation, from sex and exploitation shareware, from share and software shockumentary, from documentary and shock sitcom, from situation and comedy skort, from skirt and short smog, from smoke and fog smudgemate, from smudge and estimate soundscape, from sound and landscape spork, from spoon and fork squiggle, from squirm and wiggle stagflation, from stagnation and inflation streetball, from street and basketball

swaption, from swap and option tangelo, from tangerine and pomelo teensploitation, from teen and exploitation televangelist, from television and evangelist terrist, from Terra and terrorism thermistor, from thermal and resistor voxel, from volume and pixel

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