• 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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • Neologism (redirect from New word)
    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...
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  • 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"...
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  • obsolete, nonstandard, proper noun, loanword, or nonce word. Thus, the definition of longest English word with one syllable is somewhat subjective, and there...
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  • Protologism (redirect from Coined word)
    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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    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)...
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  • 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...
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  • Pseudoword (redirect from Non-word)
    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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • John Doe Fnord Free variables and bound variables Gadget Lorem ipsum Nonce word Placeholder name Widget Smurf Eastlake 3rd, Donald E.; Manros, Carl-Uno;...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • relationship with convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein; the word "nonce" is British prison slang referring to child molesters or, more generally...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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    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"...
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    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,...
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  • version in 1954. It is one of two Steve Miller Band songs that feature the nonce word "pompatus". The first line of the lyrics is a reference to the song "Space...
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  • University Neologism dictionary includes not only "narf" as a random sound or nonce word, but also "narfed" as a verb to mean "to be struck completely" with some...
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