nonce

• “In the United Kingdom and Australia, the term nonce sometimes spelled "nonse" is a slang word used to refer to a sex offender and/or child sexual abuser.”

  On a child's view of English

• “Garman for the nonce was the courtier, the artistic idler, the dilettante in the art of luxurious living; and Payne, conscious of his dirt-smudged overalls, envied him the elegance with which he played the rôle.”

  The Plunderer

• “Jap cartoons are fcuking weird anyway. true but should you be labelled a nonce for looking at a cartoon Steven:”

  Army Rumour Service

• “Jap cartoons are fcuking weird anyway. true but should you be labelled a nonce for looking at a cartoon No victim = no crime?”

  Army Rumour Service

• “They might best be called nonce usages, intended for a particular occasion with only a remote or vague connection with the original meaning of the word.”

  Verbatim: VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 3

• “‘uprest’ (“Revolt of Islam”, 3 21 5), which has been described as a nonce-word deliberately coined by Shelley ‘on no better warrant than the exigency of the rhyme.’”

  The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley

• “These people are not only in prison, but as convicted child molesters occupy the lowest, most despised niche in prison society - the 'nonce'.”

  UK Commentators

• “Hmm, "nonce," "chiaroscuro," and "purlieu" were the only ones I knew -- and I agree with elck that 3 out of 18 definitely equates to duncehood.”

  languagehat.com: BEAT THE JUDGE.

• “As I said in my post, these are "words you'll never have a use for," and I'd be outraged if someone used them on an actual vocabulary test in a school, say -- aside from "nonce" and maybe "chiaroscuro," there's no particular reason to know them.”

  languagehat.com: BEAT THE JUDGE.

• “Nacherally, I abandons them marital intentions for what you-all might call the "nonce" to sort o 'look over my hand ag'in an' see be I right.”

  Wolfville Nights

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