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Like many of the entries, both AE and BE-- autohagiography, awfulize, babushkaphobia, babynap, bimbette , etc.--this strikes me as a nonce word, not likely to be found around the house.
English prison slang is readily enough available in any prison drama or comedy: screw is a guard, snout is tobacco, nonce is a child molester or other sex offender, and nick or porridge is prison itself.
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 .
A nonce word, aKOOSHerke , is defined as “Friddish for midwife,’ from which one is to gather that “Friddish’ (which is nowhere explained) stands for a French-Yiddish mixture.
Recordwoman , if it was not a nonce word and is still in use, may be an example of this: though obviously feminine, it was uninflected, whereas lady , a Greek resident of much longer standing, has acquired all the inflections of a feminine noun.