smush name

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English

Noun

smush name (plural smush names)

  1. (informal) A portmanteau name created by blending two different names, especially one used to collectively describe a celebrity couple or fandom ship.
    • 2010, Danielle Reed, Emily, Jacob and Boniqua: What NOT to Name Your Child, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 17:
      When my friend Danielle (there's THAT name again) was pregnant with her oldest daughter we came across a book (of which I forget the title) which actually advocated smush names. One of the more...ahem...interesting names I remember is Shetom. It was a smush of Sheila and Thomas.
    • 2014, Grace McDermott, Mirrorfall, Wibbly Press (2014), unnumbered page:
      She looked up at them, half-expecting paparazzi to leap from the very walls to take photos, to give the couple a smush name that would undoubtedly be the key in making the new media darlings.
    • 2015, Ann Aguirre, The Queen of Bright and Shiny Things, Feiwei and Friends, →ISBN, page 243:
      They yell, “Sup, Shage,” when we walk past; we're a smush name now.
    Brangelina and Snamione are smush names.

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