Fw: Syntactic blends

[Mark A Mandel]

On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, John Fitzpatrick wrote:

#>>Would "den up" be a syntactic blend, from "den" + perhaps "build up"?
#
#"Up" seems to me to more of an intensifier, as in "revv up" and "wash
#up".  If you must find syntactic blending, my candidate would be "hole
#up", which is a synonym for "den up" but has a different meaning from
#simple "hole".

I *think* I've seen "den up" meaning just about what it seems to mean
here, i.e., 'make its home, establish a den'.

-- Mark A. Mandel
   Linguistic Data Consortium, University of Pennsylvania