more portmanteaux

• i found an explanation of the word fortnight: it's a portmanteau of fourteen and night.
  

• a goon is a cross between a gorilla and a baboon. that is pretty much little bunny foo foo's favorite animal.
  hmmm....wikipedia does not validate this...though there are many other fun definitions of the word goon. i am tempted to add one more.
  

• so, I don't believe all of these portmanteaux, but there's lots more fun words on this site
  

word of the day

portmanteau

a word that fuses two or more other words together to give a new meaning.

i.e.:

• wiktionary, my new discovery today, along with this word
• the loathable ginormous (which I would argue needs a hyphen)
• SeaTac
• Alsask (a city on the border of Alberta and Saskatchewan)
  
• and spork

coined by Lewis Carroll in Through the Looking Glass.