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.
Example Sentences Including 'ugly'. My ugly , workaday sword in its battered sheath was hanging on the wall in my little chamber. THE GOLDEN FOOL: Book Two of the Tawny Man (2002) Not only did we have the London office and the African know-how, we were new faces, and not ugly ones. BLOOD IS DIRT (2002) The container yards and the sprawl of industrial buildings on the east shore are as ugly as the dull grey waters of the bay.