As presented in following Table 4.6, adjective blends consist of four subclasses. The first subclass consists of adjective blends which are composed of
two adjectives A + A. The examples are bleen blue x green, formasual formal x casual, slungry sleepy x hungry, fugly fat x ugly,
bewrecked bereft x wrecked, and cooltastic cool x fantastic. The second subclass is the combination of an adjective and a noun A + N. Many blends such
as freemium free x premium, fandumb fanatic x dumb, provacawhoritive provocative x whore, stupig stupid x pig, fabulosexual fabulous x
homosexual, and adorabubble adorable x bubble belong to this class. The third subclass includes blends which are formed of a noun and an adjective
N + A. The instances are manbiguous man x ambiguous, pizzalicious pizza x delicious, bicurious bisexual x curious, beerlicious beer x
delicious, gaytarded gay x retarded, petrochemical petroleum x chemical, and telegenic television x photogenic. The last subclass consists of
blends which combine an adverb and an adjective Adv + A. The examples are finimany finitely x many, preet pretty x sweet, infimany infinitely x
many, rugly really x ugly, plig plenty x big, and absoludicrous absolutely x ludicrous.
Table 4.6 Examples of Adjective Blends
[A A] A [A N] A
[N A] A [Adv A] A
bleen blue x green
freemium free x premium
fruitlicious fruit x delicious
finimany finitely x many
formasual formal x
casual fandumb fanatic
x dumb manbiguous man x
ambiguous preet pretty x
sweet
cooltastic cool x fantastic
ambisextrous ambidextrous x sex
pizzalicious pizza x delicious
infimany infinitely x
many
slungry sleepy x
hungry provacawhoritive
provocative x whore
voweltacular vowel x spectacular
rugly really x ugly
smexy smart x sexy
feminoid female x android
bicurious bisexual x
curious plig plenty x
big
fugly fat x ugly
stupig stupid x pig
beerlicious beer x delicious
absoludicrous absolutely x
ludicrous
hotsome hot x awesome
fabulosexual fabulous x
homosexual gaytarded gay x
retarded
bewrecked bereft x
wrecked hitech high x
technology failtastic fail x
fantastic
gigantamous gigantic x
famous adorabubble
adorable x bubble
petrochemical petroleum x
chemical
hangry hungry x
angry telegenic
television x photogenic
3. Verb Blends
The third position fit into verb blends. Verb blends can be formed from two verbs V + V, a noun with a verb N + V, and a verb with a noun V + N. As
shown in Figure 4.8, the combination of two verbs is the most frequent. It includes 29 blends. Next, the combination of a noun and a verb follows with 13
blends. Meanwhile, there are only 3 blends which combine a verb and a noun.
Figure 4.8 Word Category of Verb Blends
As can be seen in Table 4.7, verb blends are only classified into three subclasses. The first subclass is the combination of a noun and a verb N + V.
The examples are blamestorm blame x brainstorm, drunksit drunk x babysit, electrocute electro x execute, screencap screen x capture,
skyjack sky x hijack, webvertise web x advertise, mupload mobile x upload, and wordnap word x kidnap. The second subclass is the
combination of a verb and a noun V + N. The examples are procrastinate procrastinate x crap, smilence smile x silence, and diworsify diversify x
worse. The last subclass is the combination of two verbs V + V. The examples are commuticate commute x communicate, hiccurp hiccup x burp,
intertwingle intertwine x intermingle, pronunciate pronounce x enunciate, refudiate refute x repudiate, twiddle twist x fiddle, thrillax
thrill x relax, fertigate fertilize x irrigate, splatter splash x spatter, and trampede trample x stampede
13
3 29
5 10
15 20
25 30
35
N + V V+ N
V + V word category
Table 4.7 Examples of Verb Blends
[N V]V [V N]V
[V V]V blamestorm blame x
brainstorm procrapstinate
procrastinate x crap commuticate commute x
communicate drunksit drunk x
babysit smilence smile x
silence hiccurp hiccup x burp
electrocute electro x execute
diworsify diversify x worse
intertwingle intertwine x intermingle
screencap screen x capture
pronunciate pronounce x enunciate
skyjack sky x hijack
refudiate refute x repudiate
webvertise web x advertise
twiddle twist x fiddle mupload mobile
x upload thrillax thrill x relax
telecast television x broadcast
fertigate fertilize x irrigate
tennistify tennis x mystify
splatter splash x spatter wordnap word x
kidnap trampede trample x
stampede
4. Adverb Blends
The last position belongs to adverb blends. Adverb blends do not have a range of variations. The result shows that there is only one possibility of adverb
blends in its formation, namely the combination of two adverbs Adv + Adv. As
shown in Table 4.8, adverb blends are only feasible when they are formed of two adverbs. For example, the blend absotively is the combination of adverb
absolutely and positively. The other examples are smore some x more, mayhaps maybe x perhaps, positutely positively x absolutely, mosdef
most x definitely, bactually but x actually, and irregardless
irrespective x regardless.
