Yesterday’s metromanteau

The Wayno / Piraro 8/12 Bizarro: “The Metromorphosis”: metro- [the libfix, representing the noun metrosexual] + metamorphosis [the abstract noun meaning ‘transformation’] = metromorphosis ‘transformation to metrosexuality’ (if you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in the cartoon — Wayno says there are 4 in this strip — see this Page) Two contributors: metro–. From NOAD: noun metrosexual: a man who lives in an urban area and enjoys shopping, fashion, and similar interests traditionally associated with women or gay men: the men in my family are not metrosexuals. ORIGIN 1990s: [portmanteau] of metropolitan and heterosexual From which the libfix metro-, standing in for the whole word, results. metamorphosis, the abstract noun — here in an allusion to Franz Kafka’s Die Verwandlung [The Metamorphosis] (1915), the first sentence of which sets the story, Gregor Samsa as a huge insect: Als Gregor Samsa eines Morgens aus unruhigen Träumen erwachte, fand er sich in seinem Bett zu einem ungeheueren…