The word “nonce” means “the present use, occasion or time; time being.” Its use these days is chiefly confined to the phrase “for the nonce.” ...

Even today, the word still exists in certain fields. In cryptography, a “nonce” refers to a number used once to secure data.

In other cases, nonce words are the result of a mistake. The G. and C. Merriam Company, for example, added the word “dord” to its 1934 New International Dictionary as an abbreviation for ...

It seems that this attribute is not limited to specific languages or to the form of writing of the nonce word in the different alphabets, but rather that there seems to be a cognitive association ...

That, I think, makes it a " nonce word," defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as "A word apparently used only 'for the nonce,' i.e. on one specific occasion or in one specific text or writer's ...

Nonce words in the Canterbury Tales as a whole appear at the rate of one in every twenty-seven lines. The highest concentration of these words occurs in Sir Thopas and in the Reeve's Tale where ...