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They are what some people call portmanteau words, i.e. words made by combining parts of two or more other words.

Smog = smoke and fog; brunch = breakfast and lunch, and so on.

"Portmanteau word" is a term inspired by Lewis Carroll. When Humpty Dumpty is explaining "Jabberwocky" to Alice, he says that words like "slithy" are "like a portmanteau: there are two meanings packed up in one word."

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