Blended word?

[Laurence Horn]

At 2:19 PM -0400 9/17/10, Bill Palmer wrote:
>A caller to NPR's Diane Rehm Show today complained about
>"deflamatory" comments made about the president.  I thought I had
>misheard, but he repeated it.
>
>I'm sure there's a term for this type of hybrid creation.
>
>Bill Palmer
>
blend? portmanteau?

LH

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