Jul 28 2019
Frenemy, or the plural frenemies, combines Friend and Enemy thus making it both a Portmanteau and an oxymoron or "contradiction in terms." The earliest printed use of the term was from gossip columnist Walter Winchell in the Nevada State Journal article "Howz about calling the Russians our Frienemies?" In 2000 Sex and the City Season 3, Episode 16 was titled Frenemies. Ironically,