Dictionary definition: nonce word

Encyclopedia entry: NONCE WORD
Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language;      462 words ...NONCE WORD, also nonce-word [From MIDDLE ENGLISH for the nanes , metanalysis of * for then ... x2019; ( Gavin Douglas, Æneis , 1513).] The term nonce-word was adopted in the preparation of the OED (1884) ‘ ...

Dictionary definition: nonce-word
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics;      285 words ...nonce-word. A word coined on a specific occasion. Thus there is no established word bananaphobia ; but it might be invented as a nonce-word, e.g. for the condition of some person who refuses to have bananas in the house. Hence of a word ...

Article: `Dysfunctional,' the Quintessential Nonce Word
Chicago Sun-Times;  January 17, 1993 ;     700+ words ...Every local beanery, if it is a good local beanery, offers a soup du jour: vegetable beef on Monday, cream of mushroom on Tuesday, and so on through the week to clam chowder on Sunday. Our language works the same way. We have words that come and go. Last year's soup du jour was - dysfunctional.

Article: Cognitive factors in the perception of Spanish stress placement: ...
Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences;  November 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... are examined experimentally through a nonce word perception task, and the results are ... are examined experimentally through a nonce word perception task that probes the structure ... phonetically and phonologically to the nonce word, 2) syllable weight, 3) a subregularity ...

Article: The Red Pencil
The Washington Post;  April 16, 2001 ;     281 words ...The term nonce word is used by linguists and lexicographers to label a word that is made ... its purpose, which was to suit the situation. I consider mamathon a nonce word. You won't find it in most dictionaries---yet. I first heard ...

Article: Dogode in Wulf and Eadwacer and King Alfred's Hunting Metaphors.
ANQ;  September 22, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... imagery used by King Alfred, it seems reasonable that the nonce word dogode in line 9 should be retained and understood within ... docgena as a gloss on canum. Such a verb would probably be a nonce-word, and would mean "pursued like a dog," embodying the notions ...

Article: Words of wisdom
Scotland on Sunday;  July 8, 2007 ;     296 words ... ... known use (presumably out of countless lost uses), a nonce word is deliberately created by an author for a one- off ... effect. If the hapax is an endangered species, the nonce word is a mutant. Ironically, many of them thrive. Bulwer ...