Did you know that a "portmanteau" is a word that is formed by combining both sounds and meanings from two or more words?
For example, "shart" is a portmanteau of the words "shit" and "fart". A "shart" is one of those annoying little squirty farts that often results in the soiling of one's drawers/underpants. It is my understanding that this particular portmanteau was first mentioned by this name in the movie, Along Came Polly. It is also my understanding that men seem peculiarly afflicted by sharts, whereas women somehow escape the humiliation.
The funny thing is, that this hilarious word play doesn't stop there!
If a person (usually male) desires to protect themselves from "sharts", they may employ the use of a device otherwise known as a "manpon". A manpon usually consists of a bunch of toilet paper that is placed within a man's underwear in order to form a protective barrier and thus maintain cleanliness. Manpon is another portmanteau which combines the words, "man" and "tampon".
This is one of those times when I wish that my Uncle-in-Law were still alive! He was a linguist whose job it was to serve on one of those intellectual kind of committees endowed with the power to decide which new words were to be included in the new dictionaries. We would have chuckled together over these silly portmanteau's....
Shart's and manpons?
Too funny!
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I think we could make millions if we marketed "manpons" or should they be called "manpads" and stick to the drawers with little adhesive strips.
How would that television ad run?
Thanks for the chuckle.......
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