Is stroobly a portmanteau?

It is an Amish term for disheveled or tousled. Could be used to describe someones messy hair. In My Side of the Mountain, it is used to describe the downy head of a young falcon.

The only words in Jabberwocky which Lewis Carroll described as portmanteaux are 'lithe' and 'mimsy'. `Well, "slithy" means "lithe and slimy." "Lithe" is the same as "active." You see it's like a...

Lewis Carroll never offered an explanation for the word 'tumtum' but, owing to its structure, it is unlikely to be a portmanteau. Other portmanteau words combine two different words to make a new...

A type of epithetic compound invented by Lewis Carroll in which parts of two descriptive words are combined into a single word. One famous example is slithy, which is lithe and slimy.

A portmanteau is a large suitcase. By extension, a portmanteau word is one that packs two meanings into one word: brunch (breakfast and lunch); smog (smoke and fog); slithy (slippery and lithe);...