nonce word

It is similar in spirit to a nonce word, hence the name.

Nonce words are often created as part of pop culture and advertising campaigns.

Examples of nonce words previously used in child developmental studies include:

Any one of these unstressed nonce words seem to find a similar role in the prosody.

I believe this term is too close to euphemisms for copulation to be more than a nonce word.

In Card's opinion, such nonce words simply don't work.

Nonce words are sometimes contrived to rhyme with orange.

Will gobsmacked be a nonce word, passing through the language, soon to be forgotten?

Thus they may be termed "nonce orders" on the analogy of nonce words.

An example of a nonce word in the works of Shakespeare is "honorificabilitudinitatibus".

Verbification is sometimes used to create nonce words or joking words.

- A collection of humorous nonce words.

Since then, other nonce words ending in "-crostic" have been used.

Quinion notes that most of these formations are nonce words that will never be seen again.

Other examples of nonce words include:

Many of the words in the poem are playful nonce words of Carroll's own invention, without intended explicit meaning.

Such words - and particularly the back-formations, used as nonce words - find occasional use in wordplay, particularly light verse.

For them, "inclusion" provides a much-needed nonce word - a cozy, empty, inviting euphemism for "pandering."

By the 80's his supple Italian was tossing off polylingual arpeggios, technical jargons, nonce words.

A nonce word is a lexeme created only "for the nonce" to solve an immediate problem of communication that is not expected to recur.

Within the individual songs or poems of the "Nine Pieces", lines generally consist of various numbers of syllables, separated by the nonce word.

Professor Kaye's nuance word is, at a guess, a suggestion from a word-processor's spelling checker which was derailed by nonce word .

The new meaning, though not in the dictionary, is not incorrect; it's being tested, and may vanish as a nonce word or take root as a synonym.

It is also very commonplace for an English word to be used as a nonce word, for example when the speaker temporarily cannot remember the French word.

(Orthographic gz does not occur in Esperanto, except in the nonce word egzismo itself.)