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.
- magnetic mirror
- magnetic moment
- magnetic money
- magnetic monopole
- magnetic needle
- magnetic north
- magnetic particle inspection
- magnetic particle testing
- magnetic pole
- magnetic pyrites
- magnetic quantum number
- magnetic resonance accelerator
- magnetic resonance imaging
- magnetics
- magnetic storm
- magnetic stripe
- magnetic susceptibility
- magnetic tape
- magnetic termite
- magnetic variation
- magnetic wire
- magnetiferous
- magnetisability
- magnetise
- magnetism