Example sentences for: nonce

How can you use “nonce” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • 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.

  • 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’).

  • 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.

  • 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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