The Rice University Neologisms Database

a joke having to do with Halloween Professor Shah still has a ton of spunk because she is a graduate student and it's her first year to teach, so she probably did it because she knew that this week's joke was special because of the Halloween. So, she captured the uniqueness in one word. In this case , the linker i serves to ease the transition between the lateral l to the middle top i and finally to the back middle o vowel sound. I selected compounding as the word formation type because Halloween and joke do not really share any part of each other, but a better term to describe it would be compounding plus clipping.