Nonce word
‘Nonce’ is an archaic word meaning, ‘for the one time’. A ‘nonce word’ is a word that is coined for a particular occasion. Nonce words sometimes catch on and enter everyday usage, initially as neologisms or new words – they are especially common in pop culture, e.g. ‘poptastic’; Linguist David Crystal mentions the word ‘floodle’ someone once used to mean a stretch of water bigger than a puddle but smaller than s flood.
