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Example sentences for: nonce
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William Safire, who once addressed the phrase in passing, seemed to think it a nonce expression, enjoying an ephemeral vogue.
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.
And in most cases, these appear to be expressions doomed to the nonce world.
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.
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.