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December 15, 2021 1:52 PM

Portmanteaur is a portmanteau generator.
posted by Kattullus (25 comments total)

Uniphobe

It doesn't like unicode characters.
posted by ChurchHatesTucker at 1:56 PM on December 15, 2021 [1 favorite]

any good examples issued from this site? because its a bit of a combinatorial brute force approach

or a combibrufproach as it would say

never mind i saw the title apologies
posted by lalochezia at 1:59 PM on December 15, 2021

Big deal. I typed in “ futtock sphagnum manumission” and all it does is mix and match syllables from the words.
posted by njohnson23 at 2:01 PM on December 15, 2021 [1 favorite]

Surely you mean portmanteurator.
posted by Faint of Butt at 2:11 PM on December 15, 2021 [3 favorites]

The best part of this site is the button that takes you back to Metafilter.
posted by etc. at 2:37 PM on December 15, 2021 [1 favorite]

But is it doubleplusgood?
posted by The Underpants Monster at 3:01 PM on December 15, 2021

all it does is mix and match syllables from the words.

metafilter community weblog produces scores of words, most of which resemble typos (metafcommunity, weblogfilter) or perhaps clever portmanteaus that do not really apply (mommunity, communitilter), and some sheer messes (mty, wety, wer, meog). At its best it seems like it generates terms that might have seemed chic and clever a decade and a half ago (communiblog) but which seem horribly dated now.

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Ah. I think I have found the issue,
posted by ricochet biscuit at 3:17 PM on December 15, 2021 [3 favorites]

alabaster chuckle

alabasthuckle, alabckle, alhuckle.

it's like an early Christmas present
posted by clavdivs at 3:29 PM on December 15, 2021 [1 favorite]

usefutile
posted by chavenet at 3:36 PM on December 15, 2021 [4 favorites]

poke mailbox

polbox, pailbox, pox, pokelbox, pokailbox, pokex, pokox, poklbox, pmailbox, pokx, pbox, pokmailbox, pokbox
posted by clavdivs at 3:42 PM on December 15, 2021 [1 favorite]

I think it's cute! In an era where procedural content often means, like, incredibly impressive neural nets, this has a sort of odd and useless luddite charm.
posted by dusty potato at 4:00 PM on December 15, 2021 [3 favorites]

I see where all those Amazon electronics brands (Neewer, Gikfun, Glarks) came from now.
posted by scruss at 4:06 PM on December 15, 2021 [5 favorites]

I tried “hungry cat pester time” and ended up with “hungryt pesterme,” which looks a bit like Old English….
posted by GenjiandProust at 4:14 PM on December 15, 2021 [3 favorites]

A simple improvement would be for it to also try synonyms.
posted by ChurchHatesTucker at 5:37 PM on December 15, 2021

I tried “hungry cat pester time” and ended up with “hungryt pesterme,” which looks a bit like Old English….

þæt wæs gód catte!
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 5:45 PM on December 15, 2021 [8 favorites]

Punch in "old english" and get:
onglish, osh, olsh, olnglish, oglish, olglish, olh

Hm. Onglish it is!
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 5:47 PM on December 15, 2021 [2 favorites]

pourtmanass
posted by y2karl at 6:06 PM on December 15, 2021 [2 favorites]

Parmessiah: your own personal Cheesus.
posted by Pallas Athena at 6:42 PM on December 15, 2021 [10 favorites]

Meatleer (meatloaf & deer): That creepy uncle’s favorite game
posted by JustSayNoDawg at 7:16 PM on December 15, 2021 [1 favorite]

Facebook flugelhorn

fagelhorn, fugelhorn, falhorn, felhorn, farn, forn, facegelhorn, facugelhorn, facelhorn, facern, facorn, faceboogelhorn, facebugelhorn, faceboolhorn, facebelhorn, faceboorn, faceborn, facgelhorn, faclhorn, fgelhorn, facrn, fhorn, facebgelhorn, faclugelhorn, faceblhorn, facebrn, fachorn, facebookgelhorn, faceblugelhorn, facebooklhorn, facebookrn, facebhorn, faelhorn, fahorn, fan, faceelhorn, facehorn, facen, facebooelhorn, faceboohorn, faceboon, faugelhorn, faorn, faceugelhorn, faceorn, falugelhorn, facelugelhorn, facn, facebn, facebookelhorn, facebookhorn, facebookn
posted by clavdivs at 7:24 PM on December 15, 2021 [1 favorite]

spoork, spork, spoonrk, spfork, spook, sork, sfork, spoonk
fon, foon, forn, fpoon
spoofe, spife, spe, spoonfe, spnife, spfe, spooe, sife, snife, sfe, spoone
knin, knoon, knifen, knifoon, knifn, knpoon, knifpoon, koon, knioon, kpoon, knipoon
forknife, fofe, fife, forfe, fnife, ffe, foe, fore
knirk, knork, kniferk, knifork, knifrk, knfork, kniffork, knik, knifek, kork, kniork, kfork, knifk
posted by Foosnark at 8:20 PM on December 15, 2021 [3 favorites]

kniork

I bought two at IKEA years ago and have received many compliments on how they accentuate the decor.
posted by ricochet biscuit at 9:07 PM on December 15, 2021 [5 favorites]

Just ran Foosnark's output throught the encheferizer and got:

spuurk, spurk, spuunrk, spffurk, spuuk, surk, sffurk, spuunk
fun, fuun, furn, fpuun
spuuffe-a, speeffe-a, spe-a, spuunffe-a, spneeffe-a, spffe-a, spuue-a, seeffe-a, sneeffe-a, sffe-a, spuune-a
kneen, knuun, kneeffee, kneeffuun, kneeffn, knpuun, kneeffpuun, kuun, kneeuun, kpuun, kneepuun
furkneeffe-a, fuffe-a, feeffe-a, furffe-a, fneeffe-a, fffe-a, fue-a, fure-a
knurk, knurk, kneefferk, kneeffurk, kneeffrk, knffurk, kneeffffurk, kneek, kneeffek, kurk, kneeurk, kffurk, kneeffk
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 10:51 PM on December 15, 2021 [2 favorites]

It's quite good for names. Have done nieces and friend's two cats.
posted by paduasoy at 1:53 PM on December 16, 2021 [1 favorite]

Jingle, Rock, Bell

Including: jingle rock, rock jingle, bell jingle, and more

See Jingle-Rock-Bell
posted by alikins at 6:48 PM on December 16, 2021 [3 favorites]