A portmanteau is a large suitcase. The word comes from French porter carry and manteau mantle, or cloak â so it's what you carry your clothes in. Or, a portmanteau is a word made by combining two other words. You might remember portmanteau from Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass, where Humpty Dumpty explains to Alice the portmanteau word, in which two meanings are packed up into one word. So, according to Humpty Dumpty, slithy means lithe and slimy, and mimsy is flimsy and miserable.
to be as ugly as a mud fence definition, to be as ugly as a mud fence meaning | English dictionary. Search also in: Web News Encyclopedia Images. ugly. adj , -lier, -liest. 1 of unpleasant or unsightly appearance. 2 repulsive, objectionable, or displeasing in any way. war is ugly. 3 ominous or menacing.
See more words with the same meaning: unattractive, ugly. Last edited on May 04 2010. Submitted by Kevin Henson from Fresno, CA, USA on May 02 1998. origin. When caught in a trap, a coyote will sometimes chew it's leg off to escape. A person that is coyote ugly is so ugly, that when waking up next to that person with one's arm underneath them, one would rather chew one's own arm off than risk waking them by pulling one's arm out. Last edited on May 04 2010. Submitted by Kevin Henson from Fresno, CA, USA on May 02 1998.