smush name

plural smush names

1. informalA portmanteau name created by blending two different names, especially one used to collectively describe a celebrity couple or fandom ship.

   Brangelina and Snamione are smush names.

   3 more examples

   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.

   2010, Danielle Reed, Emily, Jacob and Boniqua: What NOT to Name Your Child, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 17

   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.

   2014, Grace McDermott, Mirrorfall, Wibbly Press (2014), unnumbered page

   They yell, “Sup, Shage,” when we walk past; we're a smush name now.

   2015, Ann Aguirre, The Queen of Bright and Shiny Things, Feiwei and Friends, →ISBN, page 243