Could've been Apemione.
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My impression was that in HP they tended to disdain portmanteaux in favour of cutesy nicknames - HMS Pumpkin Pie for Harry/Hermione, for example. Which I confess I found equally infuriating.
HMS Pumpkin Pie for Harry/Hermione
what does that mean?
Maybe I made up the HMS bit? Not sure. But evidently I expressed myself badly. What I mean is, they do not say 'Harry/Hermione', or indeed 'Harmione' or 'Herry', but rather they refer to the pairing as 'Pumpkin Pie'.
(There are others who refer to it as Harmony, though, apparently. Which makes a bit more sense.)
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Nope, evidently I didn't make up the HMS bit.
Other HP 'ship names include Orange Crush to refer to Harry/Ginny, Leather and Libraries to refer to Draco/Hermione and various other random phrases.
I think HMS might be right, cause it's a 'ship, get it? Yuk, yuk.
Oh, no, I understood the oh-so-amusing jest - I just wasn't sure whether it was something I'd just made up. Particularly since Pumpkin Pie is such a very unBritish foodstuff, and is generally regarded with incredulity bordering on horror by Brits who haven't actually tasted it - so I'd pretty much assumed it was made up by American fanbrats. Who wouldn't neccesarily go with HMS.
...but, no, apparently I didn't make it up. I'm still boggling over some of the other mad-as-fuck names that a quick Google has led me to. They include Guns and Handcuffs, Wotcher Wolvie and The Government Stole My Toad.
...there is, I grant, a certain charm to this. It's less inelegant than portmanteax. (Other than Clex. And Kock. I have high hopes that the Star Trek movie is going to bring 'Kock' or at least 'Spork' into actual usage.)
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The one portmanteaux name that I like is Foreteen, for Foreman/Thirteen on House.
(edited, because I can't remember what the current-season policy is in here.)
I can't help but approve of the portmanteau for Pepper Potts and Tony Stark, which is Pepperony.
Pepperony
Okay, that one made me snort beer.
I'm still fond of Spike/Fred. (Spred.)
I mean, that one cracked me up enough that I made it an archive.