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skinoe en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈskiˌnuː/

Etymology

Blend of ski + canoe.

Meanings

1. A small boat that is a cross between a jetski and a canoe.
   • In skinoe (ski + canoe), the word canoe functions as the semantic head, since skinoe is a type of canoe. 2005 November 24, Keith Brown, Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2 edition, volumes 1-14, Elsevier, →ISBN:
   • For instance, the endocentric blend skinoe, which results from the fusion of ski and canoe, is a hyponym of the second base word and the rightmost member functions as the head. 2022 November 15, Alexandra Bagasheva, Bozhil Hristov, Nelly Tincheva, “Lexical blending in terms of cognitive modeling”, in Figurativity and Human Ecology, volume 17, John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 281:
   • For example, a dogbrella ‘an umbrella for a dog’ is a type of umbrella or a skinoe (based on ski and canoe) is a type of canoe. It is worth noting that some adjectives may also belong to this category, e.g. funtastic (fun + fantastic) ‘very enjoyable’. 2015 October 28, Ewa Wałaszewska, “Chapter Six”, in Relevance-Theoretic Lexical Pragmatics: Theory and Applications, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 187:

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