nonce word
Etymology
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Etymology
From for the nonce and word.
Nounnonce word (plural nonce words)
- (lexicography) A word invented for the occasion.
- French: mot ad hoc, hapax
- German: Ad-hoc-Bildung, Ad-hoc-Wortbildung Augenblicksbildung, Gelegenheitsbildung, okkasionelle Bildung, Okkasionalismus
- Italian: occasionalismo
- Portuguese: palavra ad hoc
- Russian: окказионали́зм
- Spanish: expresión "ad hoc", palabro, hápax
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