I've been posting sober comments lately. I thought I'd follow Kelly and Leen's examples and post something light for a change of pace. A portmanteau is a word created by merging parts of two similar words together. The new word combines the meanings of the original words. An example is "meld" which combines the words "melt" and "weld" along with their meanings.
Many years ago I read an article about invented praise words used in ads. This was in the Journal of Irreproducible Results, a humor magazine by and for scientists (Heidi, you might appreciate this one). The author invented a few words of his own. The one that stuck with me was "splentrific". It's a great word. I really should use it more often. It's a perfect superlative for advertisements: it sounds really good and yet it means nothing at all.
I could only think of one word in common usage of this sort: "fantabulous". It seems we should have many more in usage. So I created a portmanteau ad word generator. Pair off words from the list below. Take the first part of one word and attach the end of another word to generate your own splentrific portmanteau word. For example, start with "dazzling" and "terrific" and you get "dazzerific". See how many you can come up with!
Amazing
Astonishing
Awesome
Brilliant
Dazzling
Exceptional
Exquisite
Fabulous
Fantastic
Glorious
Incredible
Magnificent
Marvelous
Miraculous
Momentous
Phenomenal
Sensational
Spectacular
Splendid
Stunning
Stupendous
Superb
Terrific
Tremendous
Wonderful
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