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nonce-word

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nonce-word [ˈnɒnswɜːd] Nhápax m inv (palabra efímera creada para un caso especial)


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Paul Dickson sought contributions from others when collecting nonce-words used only by members of a family.
As a nonce-word, blog rot has more going for it than just assonance and the one-two punch of short one-syllable words; it also recalls link rot, the well-established term that describes the tendency of links on the World Wide Web to go bad over time (as web pages are taken down or moved).
 
 
 
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