Portmanteau the duck into a turkey, was added to the "Oxford English Dictionary" in 2010. Similarly, the word "refudiate" was first used by Sarah Palin when she misspoke, conflating the words "refute" and "repudiate". Though initially a gaffe, the word was recognized as the "New Oxford American Dictionary"s "Word of the Year" in 2010. The business lexicon is replete with newly coined portmanteau words like "permalance" (permanent freelance), "advertainment" (advertising as entertainment), "advertorial" (a blurred distinction between advertising and editorial), "infotainment" (information about entertainment or itself intended to entertain by virtue of its manner of presentation), and "infomercial" (informational commercial). A
Portmanteau more existing words that all relate to a singular concept. A portmanteau also differs from a compound, which does not involve the truncation of parts of the stems of the blended words. For instance, "starfish" is a compound, not a portmanteau, of "star" and "fish"; whereas a hypothetical portmanteau of "star" and "fish" might be "stish". The word "portmanteau" was first used in this sense by Lewis Carroll in the book "Through the Looking-Glass" (1871), in which Humpty Dumpty explains to Alice the coinage of the unusual words in "Jabberwocky", where "slithy" means "slimy and lithe" and "mimsy" is "miserable