In the back of my working notebook, I keep a list of words that hum for me, word...

In the back of my working notebook, I keep a list of words that hum for me, words that I feel might turn into stories someday. One of those words is portmanteau. I have transferred this word from notebook to notebook to notebook. It continues to hum for me; but still, no story. Today, I was looking through the dictionary for something else, and there was my old friend "portmanteau." Directly below it, was this entry: "portmanteau word" a word that is formed by merging the sound and meaning...