In linguistics, a nonce word—also called an occasionalism—is any word (lexeme), or any sequence of sounds or letters, created for a single occasion or utterance but not otherwise understood or recognized as a word in a given language.
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Thants
Perhaps ironically, ‘nonce’ is not a nonce word.
Isn’t that true for most words describing words? ‘Long’ isnt a long word, ‘short’ is longer. ‘Palindrome’ is not a palindrome, ‘adjective’ is a noun, ‘name’ isn’t a name, ‘swear’ isn’t a swear-word…
Blurk is a blzdgk
A lep is a ball
Is there a term for words that describe themselves? Kind of like onomatopoeia but different
They’re called autological.
Very cool, thanks!
