nonce words
31nonsense verse — noun Date: 1799 humorous or whimsical verse that features absurd characters and actions and often contains evocative but meaningless nonce words …
32-speak — noun combining form Etymology: newspeak used to form especially nonce words denoting a particular kind of jargon < architectspeak > < Californiaspeak > …
33Bokononism — is a religion invented by Kurt Vonnegut as a fictional religion, and practiced by many of the characters in his novel Cat s Cradle. It is based on the concept of foma, which are defined as harmless untruths. The primary tenet of Bokononism is to… …
34Bananaphone — C A N A D A redirects here. For the country, see Canada. For other uses, see Canada (disambiguation). Bananaphone Studio album by Raffi …
35Slim & Slam — was a 1930s musical partnership formed by Bulee Slim Gaillard (vocals, guitar and piano) and Leroy Elliott Slam Stewart (bass and vocals). They produced novelty jazz numbers featuring Slim s distinctive vocal style with vocalese and scats,… …
36Acrostic (puzzle) — An acrostic is a type of word puzzle, related somewhat to crossword puzzles, that uses an acrostic form. It typically consists of two parts. The first part is a set of lettered clues, each of which has numbered blanks representing the letters of… …
37Interfix — is a term in linguistics and more specifically, morphology (the study of morphemes, the most basic meaningful entities in word formation). It describes an affix which is placed in between two other morphemes and does not have a semantic meaning.… …
38nonsenseverse — nonsense verse n. Verse characterized by humor or whimsy and often featuring nonce words. * * * …
39-aholic — a combining form extracted from alcoholic, occurring as the final element in compounds, often facetious nonce words, with the sense a person who has an addiction to or obsession with some object or activity : workaholic; chargeaholic. Also, holic …
40-gate — a combining form extracted from Watergate, occurring as the final element in journalistic coinages, usually nonce words, that name scandals resulting from concealed crime or other alleged improprieties in government or business: Koreagate. * * * …
