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There is rather a double standard, first the so-called American Standard that textbooks try to inculcate, the dignified parlance of discourse, and then the related but divergent American Wit, the standard of ingenuity, which trafficks freely in analogy, pun, and portmanteau.
(Meanwhile we should not overlook that hyrcan major is also a fine portmanteau word, with its references to Hyrcania, a province of the ancient Persian and Parthian empires, and Ursa Major, the Great Bear constellation.)
Bufu a homosexual man, a portmanteau from butt fucker, was already in with a first citation from a 1982 Valley Girl dictionary, but we have added the use in the defining text of that subculture, Frank Zappa's Valley Girl: Like my English teacher—He's like Mr. Bufu...He like flirts with all the guys in the class.
More than that, the Dictionnaire gives its blessing also to several words of blatantly English stock, such as hall, drugstore , and pipeline (pronounce: pea-PLEAN), even including portmanteau words ( bit, pixel ) and acronyms ( laser, radar ).
3. Portmanteau words, the most fascinating and treacherous.