There is a special type multiple meaning of a word which is called “portmanteau word”. Such words are either coined by joining two words or two meanings. For example, when Shakespeare’s character Cleopatra, exciting the asp to a frenzy, says Come, thou mortal wretch, With thy sharp teeth this knot intrinsicate Of life at once untie. Poor venomous fool, Be angry, and dispatch, The word “intrinsicate” in this passage exemplifies a special type of multiple meaning, which can be called the portmanteau word, in which two meanings (words) are packed up into one. These two words are “intrinsic” and “intricate”. The term was introduced in literary criticism by Humpty Dumpty, the expert on semantics in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass. James Joyce exploited this device to the full in order to sustain the multiple levels of meaning in his dream narrative Finnegans Wake.