nonce word

English

Etymology

From for the nonce and word. Coined by James Murray, the influential first editor of the Oxford English Dictionary.

Noun

Examples

Sometimes

I feel quite CERTAIN

there's a JERTAIN

in my CURTAIN. (Dr. Seuss)

nonce word (plural nonce words)

(lexicography) A word invented for the occasion; especially to create alliteration or a rhyme.
Synonyms: nonce, occasionalism, contrivance, logatome, pseudoword

Hypernym: protologism

Translations

word invented for the occasion

Arabic: لَفْظُ مُنَاسَبَة (ar) m (lafẓu munāsaba)
Czech: okazionalizmus (cs) m, hapax m
Dutch: hapax (nl) m
Estonian: juhusõna, okasionaalsõna
Finnish: tilapäismuodoste, keksitty sana
French: mot ad hoc (fr) m, hapax (fr) m
German: Ad-hoc-Bildung (de) f, Ad-hoc-Wortbildung f Augenblicksbildung (de) f, Gelegenheitsbildung (de) f, okkasionelle Bildung f, Okkasionalismus (de) m
Greek: λεξιπλασία (el) f (lexiplasía)
Hungarian: alkalmi/egyedi szó/szóalkotás, alkalmilag alkotott szó
Italian: occasionalismo (it) m
Latvian: okazionālisms m, okazionālisms m
Norwegian: engangsord n
Polish: okazjonalizm m
Portuguese: palavra ad hoc f
Russian: окказионали́зм (ru) m (okkazionalízm), га́пакс (ru) m (gápaks)
Spanish: expresión ad hoc f, palabro (es) m, hápax (es) m
Swedish: tillfällig ordbildning c, tillfällighetsbildning c
Turkish: özel sözcük

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Translations to be checked

Spanish: ^{(please verify)} ideíca

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