Bleisure

How do you feel about the word bleisure? A word which combines business and leisure.
 
How about the word jobliday? Working while you are on holidays. Or the word plork, a combination of play and work.
 
Or how about hoffice? I just made up that one. Or hork? Working from home. “If you need me, I’ll be horking at the hoffice today.”
 
Would you use such words in public? Maybe they will catch on like staycation. Maybe not.
 
Such words are called portmanteau words—parts of two different words jammed together to make a new word. Other examples include blog (web + log), podcast (iPod + broadcast), brunch, smog, cosplay, romcom, and many others. Such words were popularized in the 19th century by Lewis Carroll—chortle is one of his creations (chuckle + snort).
 
Portmanteau words are not to be confused with compound words--two complete words joined together to create a new word; e.g., airport, anyhow, backfire, baseball, doorknob, keyboard, peppermint, whiteboard, and hundreds more.
 
 
Reference: Online Etymological Dictionary, https://www.etymonline.com/
Bartleby. (7 May 2022). Suntan lotion, laptop charger. The Economist, 59.
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