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.
- graphical
- -graphical
- graphical display
- graphically
- -graphically
- graphical user interface
- graphic artist
- graphic arts
- graphic design
- graphic designer
- graphic display
- graphic equalizer
- graphicness
- graphic novel
- graphics
- graphics accelerator
- graphics card
- graphics tablet
- graphite
- graphitic
- graphitise
- graphitization
- graphitize
- graphological
- graphologist