different between portmanteau vs pun

English

Alternative forms

• (travelling case): portmantua
• (schoolbag): (shortening) port, (shortening) school port

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /p??t?mæn.t??/
• (US) enPR: pôrtm?'nt?, pô'rtm?nt??, IPA^(key): /p???t?mænto?/, /?p???tmæn?to?/

Etymology 1

French portemanteau (“coat stand”), from porte (“carry”) + manteau (“coat”).

Noun

portmanteau (plural portmanteaus or portmanteaux)

1. A large travelling case usually made of leather, and opening into two equal sections.
2. (Australia, dated) A schoolbag.
3. (archaic) A hook on which to hang clothing.

Translations

Etymology 2

First used by Lewis Carroll in Through The Looking Glass to describe the words he coined in Jabberwocky.

Adjective

portmanteau (not comparable)

1. (attributive, linguistics) Made by combining two (or more) words, stories, etc., in the manner of a linguistic portmanteau.

Noun

portmanteau (plural portmanteaus or portmanteaux)

1. (linguistics) A portmanteau word.

   Synonyms: blend, frankenword, portmanteau word

Translations

Derived terms

• portmanteau film
• portmanteau word

Verb

portmanteau (third-person singular simple present portmanteaus, present participle portmanteauing, simple past and past participle portmanteaued)

1. To make a portmanteau word.

See also

• List of portmanteau words defined in Wiktionary
• Wikipedia article on portmanteaus (cases and words)

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: p?n, IPA^(key): /p?n/
• Rhymes: -?n

Etymology 1

From Middle English ponnen, ponen, punen, from Old English punian, p?nian (“to pound, beat, bray, bruise, crush, grind”), from Proto-Germanic *pun?n? (“to break to pieces, pulverize”). See pound. As a kind of word play, from the notion of "beating" the words into place.

Verb

pun (third-person singular simple present puns, present participle punning, simple past and past participle punned)

1. (transitive) To beat; strike with force; to ram; to pound, as in a mortar; reduce to powder, to pulverize.
2. (intransitive) To make or tell a pun; to make a play on words.

Noun

pun (plural puns)

1. A joke or type of wordplay in which similar definitions or sounds of two words or phrases, or different definitions of the same word, are deliberately confused.

   Synonyms: paronomasia, play on words

   Hypernym: joke

   Hyponym: antanaclasis

   • Austen was likely referring to flogging or spanking, then common naval punishments, known as le vice anglais.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From the McCune-Reischauer romanization of Korean ? (bun), from Chinese ? (“fen”)

Noun

pun (plural puns or pun)

1. (Korean units of measure) Alternative form of bun: a Korean unit of length equivalent to about 0.3 cm.

Anagrams

• N-up, NPU, UPN, nup

Chuukese

Conjunction

pun

1. because

Dalmatian

Alternative forms

• puan
• pen (Ragusan dialect)

Etymology

From Latin p?nis, p?nem.

Noun

pun m

1. (Vegliot) bread

Malay

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /pon/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /p?n/
• Rhymes: -on

Adverb

pun (Jawi spelling ????)

1. also
2. even

Synonyms

• juga

Related terms

• -pun

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pun]

Verb

pun

1. first-person singular present indicative of pune
2. first-person singular present subjunctive of pune
3. third-person plural present indicative of pune

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *p?ln?, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *píl?nas, from Proto-Indo-European *pl?h?nós.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pûn/

Adjective

p?n (definite p?n?, Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. full, filled
2. fleshy, plump
3. full, complete
4. occupied (of room)

Declension

Spanish

Noun

pun m (uncountable)

1. (onomatopoeia) the sound of discharging a firearm

   Synonym: pum

2. (onomatopoeia, vulgar) the sound of flatulence