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And in most cases, these appear to be expressions doomed to the nonce world.
For many, it might be impossible to find evidence for their existence outside the single quotation in the OED or similar source, and they might have been nonce coinages.
Eliot's--an entry that runs on for two and a half pages), the name of just one Yiddish theatrical figure, Boris Tomashefsky , Hebrew literary works ( Zohar ), nonce formations ( money/shmoney , which takes up two pages), misspelled place names to indicate mispronunciation ( BRANzvil , for Brownsville , a section of Brooklyn), Yiddish words that are never used in English ( FUHLKStimlech `folksy,' guht `God,' ich starb `I'm dying'), encyclopedic terms ( black Jews ), and nonexistent words ( who-er “defined’ by the author as “Not exactly Yiddish, but the New Yorkish pronunciation of whore’).
In the same piece, he traces savvy to Portuguese, which might be correct, but Mencken's American Language derives it from the Spanish sabe . Professor Kaye's nuance word is, at a guess, a suggestion from a word-processor's spelling checker which was derailed by nonce word .
As well as the nonce , the grass informer is also in danger, such danger being especially acute if the offender is dragged into a pad (a.k.a. peter cell) out of sight and hearing of the kangas (short for kangaroo , rhyming slang for screw ).