skinoe

English

Etymology

Blend of ski +‎ canoe

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈskiˌnuː/
  • Rhymes: -uː

Noun

skinoe (plural skinoes)

  1. A small boat that is a cross between a jetski and a canoe.
    • 2005 November 24, Keith Brown, Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics‎[1], 2 edition, volumes 1-14, Elsevier, →ISBN:
      In skinoe (ski + canoe), the word canoe functions as the semantic head, since skinoe is a type of canoe.
    • 2015 October 28, Ewa Wałaszewska, “Chapter Six”, in Relevance-Theoretic Lexical Pragmatics: Theory and Applications‎[2], Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 187:
      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’.
    • 2022 November 15, Alexandra Bagasheva, Bozhil Hristov, Nelly Tincheva, “Lexical blending in terms of cognitive modeling”, in Figurativity and Human Ecology‎[3], volume 17, John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 281:
      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.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:skinoe.
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