Smig

The word I decided to use as my portmanteau was "smig." It is a combination of small and big, and I came up with it as an easier way of describing something as medium sized. Small and big are very short descriptive words that describe a specific attribute, and it seemed like describing things as "medium sized" didn't flow as well as small, big, or smig. So the definition of the world is essentially medium sized, in-between small and big.

I used the word for two weeks with my friends and family, and it didn't go very well in regards to people taking it seriously. I'm known as a pretty jovial person and whenever I would use the world people thought I was just messing with them at first. Eventually it caught on a little more and people would no longer laugh when I said it. In the second week people pretty much got used to it and would either just go with my use of it or make a comment on how the word is dumb or something. A few times my parents used the word back at me, which wasn't very surprising because I think they just assumed all the kids were saying it nowadays. I don't think the word is too awful; I just feel like my personality held the word's potential back because my friends would think I just wanted to trick them. Overall it was an interesting exercise and I enjoyed using the word.