nonce word
noun
A word coined for one single occasion only: English bristles with nonce words...
- One researcher thinks that didgeridoo may be an Irish coinage, a nonce word like boogaloo or dingaling.
- Here's a list of nonce words in my colourful vocabulary that have not yet found their way into any dictionary.
- Another sort of punning found in newspapers is the allusive re-using of nonce words from slogans.
Origin
Late 19th century: from nonce1 + word.
- proverbiality
- proverbialize
- proverbializing
- proverbially
- proverbic
- proverbiology
- Proverbs
- prove someone wrong
- prove something up
- pro-vicar
- pro-vicariate
- pro-vice-chancellor
- providable
- provide
- provided
- provided school
- providence
- Providence Plantations
- provident
- provident club
- provident fund
- providential
- providentialism
- providentialist
- providentially