| 单词 | nonce-word |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnonce-word nonce-word n. [one of a number of terms coined by James Murray especially for use in the N.E.D.] a word apparently used only ‘for the nonce’, i.e. on one specific occasion or in one specific text or writer's works. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > word > [noun] > other specific types of word hard word1533 household word1574 magic word1581 grandam words1598 signal word1645 book worda1670 wordie1718 my whole1777 foundling1827–38 keyword1827 Mesopotamia1827 thought-word1844 word-symbol1852 nursery word1853 pivot word1865 rattler1865 object word1876 pillow word1877 nonce-word1884 non-word1893 fossil1901 blessed word1910 bogy-word1919 catch-all1922 pseudo-word1929 false friend1931 plus word1939 descriptor1946 meta-word1952 discourse marker1967 shrub2008 1884 N.E.D. Fasc. 1, p. x Words apparently employed only for the nonce, are, when inserted in the Dictionary, marked nonce-wd. 1884 N.E.D. at Agreemony A nonce-word, probably intended to suggest acrimony. 1927 Englische Studien Nov. 99 If an alternative explanation presents itself, topographical nonce-words ought to be avoided. 1990 B. Bryson Mother Tongue vi. 91 Germans, suffering a similar problem with zwei and drei, introduced the nonce word zwo, for two, to deal with such misunderstandings. < as lemmas |
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