In linguistics, a nonce word—also called an occasionalism—is any word (lexeme), or any sequence of sounds or letters, created for a single occasion or...

engineering Nonce word, a word used to meet a need that is not expected to recur The Nonce, American rap duo Nonce orders, an architectural term Nonce, a slang...

for a nonce. Nonce is a word dating back to Middle English for something only used once or temporarily (often with the construction "for the nonce"). It...

playing this file? See media help. Many of the words in the poem are playful nonce words of Carroll's own invention, without intended explicit meaning. When...

The identity of the longest word in English depends on the definition of a word and of length. Words may be derived naturally from the language's roots...

studies into language change and word formation, in fact, identify the process of a "neological continuum": a nonce word is any single-use term that may...

is a nonce word coined by Steve Miller in his hit single "The Joker" (1973). The word is probably a corruption of—or imagined variation on—the word "puppetutes"...

obsolete, nonstandard, proper noun, loanword, or nonce word. Thus, the definition of longest English word with one syllable is somewhat subjective, and there...

appearance of a word or an expression in a body of text, not to either its origin or its prevalence in speech. It thus differs from a nonce word, which may...

In linguistics, a protologism is a newly used or coined word, a nonce word, that has been repeated but has not gained acceptance beyond its original users...

quark is an elementary particle. Quark may also refer to: "Quark", a nonce word in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, and the origin of the particle name Quark...

ISBN 978-3-11-028923-7), 35–50. Harold Wentworth, "'Sandwich' words and rime-caused nonce words", West Virginia University Bulletin: Philological Studies 3 (1939)...

not clearly defined; a mid-point between dating and not dating. skibidi Nonce word, is often used for a comedic or exaggerating effect. From Skibidi Toilet...

actual word in a certain language, while in fact it has no meaning. It is a specific type of nonce word, or even more narrowly a nonsense word, composed...

consist of various numbers of syllables, separated by the nonce word. In this case, the nonce word of choice is 兮 (pinyin: xī, Old Chinese: *gˤe). This, as...

the referents of the terms are entirely unknown. It is an example of a nonce word. The phrase, coined in 1903 by Andrew Ingraham became popularised through...

Batman's favorite soup in Batman #701. List of soups "Palatician" may be a nonce word derived from "palate", in the sense of the ability to distinguish between...

In the song "I Like the Way" by Darren Hayes, this is rhymed with the nonce word "temptee", i.e. one who is tempted, in the line "But temptation tempts...

language. A word may be phonologically well-formed, meaning it conforms to the sound pattern of the language. For example, the nonce word wug coined by...

John Doe Fnord Free variables and bound variables Gadget Lorem ipsum Nonce word Placeholder name Widget Smurf Eastlake 3rd, Donald E.; Manros, Carl-Uno;...

Lapine word "silflay" (meaning "To go above ground to feed. Literally, to feed outside.") has entered the English lexicon as more than a mere nonce word. In...

the accompanying study guide, Ferrari is outed as a "globularist", a nonce word for someone who believes the Earth is spherical. The real intent of the...

Wittgenstein's writings, the word "nonsense" carries a special technical meaning which differs significantly from the normal use of the word. In this sense, "nonsense"...

commonplace for an English word to be used as a nonce word, for example when the speaker temporarily cannot remember the French word. This is particularly...

relationship with convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein; the word "nonce" is British prison slang referring to child molesters or, more generally...

catch, to go for a walk, etc. Verbification is sometimes used to create nonce words or joking words. Often, simple conversion is involved, as with formations...

citizens. Contrary to the assumption that "Coro" refers to the word "core," the name is a nonce word created to represent "both discovery and exploration." The...

and afraid of the future. Wanda Raiford observes that the use of the nonce word frak in both Battlestar Galactica series is "an indispensable part of...

Seuss books that depends on nonce words. Seuss constructed each rhyme to pair one English word and one nonce word. The nonce words are contrasted from the...

text used to fill in for written content in a page layout design Mohmil Nonce word Sampo The Thing-Ummy Bob Variable and attribute (research) thingummy,...