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William Safire, who once addressed the phrase in passing, seemed to think it a nonce expression, enjoying an ephemeral vogue.
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.
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.
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.
It sounded like a nonce usage to me till I found it in The Random House Unabridged, Second Edition [RHDII] with a date of 1840-50.
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