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Nonce

A list of 34 words by zeke.

  • sqwelnkwas added by oroboros and appears on just this list
  • cheese whizwas added by zeke and appears on 4 lists
  • mittenwas added by zeke and appears on 24 lists
  • tinkerwas added by zeke and appears on 60 lists
  • zerbertwas added by actung and appears on 2 lists
  • earwas added by zeke and appears on 49 lists
  • panjandrumwas added by bilby and appears on 110 lists
  • bedinnerwas added by zeke and appears on 3 lists
  • eleventeenwas added by zeke and appears on 6 lists
  • oojahwas added by zeke and appears on 8 lists
  • dasypygalwas added by zeke and appears on 22 lists
  • hemipygicwas added by zeke and appears on 4 lists
  • tiddlywinkerwas added by zeke and appears on 2 lists
  • mimsywas added by zeke and appears on 55 lists
  • jabberwockywas added by zeke and appears on 66 lists
  • quarkwas added by zeke and appears on 79 lists
  • supercalifragilisticexpialidociouswas added by zeke and appears on 74 lists
  • baldenfreudewas added by zeke and appears on 2 lists
  • snigletwas added by zeke and appears on 31 lists
  • runciblewas added by zeke and appears on 43 lists
  • fupawas added by zeke and appears on 7 lists
  • fendlewas added by zeke and appears on 2 lists
  • femwas added by zeke and appears on 12 lists
  • gazzerwas added by zeke and appears on 2 lists
  • tulverwas added by zeke and appears on 2 lists
  • speffwas added by zeke and appears on 2 lists
  • zavwas added by zeke and appears on 2 lists
  • pimwitwas added by zeke and appears on 2 lists
  • tomawas added by zeke and appears on 3 lists
  • daxwas added by zeke and appears on 3 lists
  • blicketwas added by zeke and appears on 3 lists
  • wugwas added by zeke and appears on 5 lists
  • fnordwas added by zeke and appears on 38 lists
  • kwyjibowas added by zeke and appears on 5 lists

About

A nonce word is a word used only "for the nonce"—to meet a need that is not expected to recur. Quark, for example, was formerly a nonce word in English, appearing only in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake. Murray Gell-Mann then adopted it to name a new class of subatomic particle. The use of the term nonce word in this way was apparently the work of James Murray, the influential editor of Oxford English Dictionary.

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  • kalayzich commented on the list nonce

    lacerant is a nonce word Mr Zeke

    What was James Joyce' intended meaning?

    October 6, 2013