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pseudoword: a nonsense word that still follows the phonotactics of a particular language and is therefore pronounceable, feeling to native speakers like a possible word (for example, in English, blurk is a pseudoword, but bldzkg is a nonword); thus, pseudowords follow a language's phonetic rules but have no meaning [10]
the traditional bright red colour of a British pillar box (US: fire engine red or candy apple red) pillock (slang, derogatory) foolish person, used esp. in northern England but also common elsewhere. Derived from the Northern English term pillicock, a dialect term for penis, although the connection is rarely made in general use. pinch * to steal.
Nonce may refer to: Cryptographic nonce, a number or bit string used only once, in security engineering; Nonce word, a word used to meet a need that is not expected to recur; The Nonce, American rap duo; Nonce orders, an architectural term; Nonce, a slang term chiefly used in Britain for alleged or convicted sex offenders, especially ones ...
The language of slang, in common with the English language, is changing all the time; new words and phrases are being added and some are used so frequently by so many, they almost become mainstream. While some slang words and phrases are used throughout Britain (e.g. knackered, meaning "exhausted").
In cryptography, a nonce is an arbitrary number that can be used just once in a cryptographic communication. [1] It is often a random or pseudo-random number issued in an authentication protocol to ensure that each communication session is unique, and therefore that old communications cannot be reused in replay attacks .
Articles related to nonce words, lexemes created for a single occasion to solve an immediate problem of communication. Subcategories This category has only the following subcategory.
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This is the exact quote from David Crystal's book The Cambridge Encyclopedia of The English Language, "A nonce word (from the 16th-century phrase for the nonce, meaning 'for the once') is a lexeme created for temporary use, to solve an immediate problem of communication." p.