Some words, like ‘motel,’ ‘brunch,’ and ‘sitcom,’ are obvious portmanteaux. But the portmanteaux on this list are undercover.

Every year, Germany selects their annual ‘Youth Word of the Year’, which is voted for by youngsters around the country. View ...

Mathews Memorial Library visited Mathews Elementary School on Oct. 15, again handing out personal dictionaries to third grade ...

To spend time aimlessly or to be lazy; to dawdle A type of cookie made with cinnamon and sugar, often soft and chewy To move or act in a clumsy or awkward manner; to fumble A noisy situation, often ...

Tolkien took the drama of the word “catastrophe” and turned it on its head by adding eu, meaning “good”. A eucatastrophe is a ...

Do you know what an opportunity is? According to Mr. Dictionary, it’s a set of circumstances that makes it possible to do ...

In Old English, the word man was a general word for people. The word for man as in male was wer. Wer really only survives in ...

As the award celebrates its 20th anniversary, Fiona McPherson, a senior editor in the New Words team of the Oxford English ...

He went on to explain that it was a corrupted portmanteau of the German schlim (meaning “slim”) and the Hebrew mazzal ...

The lines between what’s morbidly fascinating and sexually appealing are blurred when it comes to this Spanish word.

T HE WORD “demure” is old—it describes the sort of modest lady Victorians esteemed—but it is freshly fashionable. There are ...

"Alpha females are intelligent, confident, goal-oriented, ambitious and assertive, which can be a considerable asset in a ...