nonces

Meaning of nonces

noun
  1. The one or single occasion; the present reason or purpose (now only in for the nonce).
    That will do for the nonce, but we'll need a better answer for the long term.
  2. A nonce word.
    I had thought that the term was a nonce, but it seems as if it's been picked up by other authors.
  3. A value constructed so as to be unique to a particular message in a stream, in order to prevent replay attacks.
noun
  1. (prisons) A sex offender, especially one who is guilty of sexual offences against children.
    1989 "assorted nonces, ponces and murderers, 'the worst men in the world' [...] on the nonce wing, where the child-killers, molesters and various perverts have to be protected from the other prisoners." (New Statesman, New Society, Volume 2, Statesman & Nation Publishing Company Limited)
  2. (prisons) A police informer, one who betrays a criminal enterprise
  3. A stupid or worthless person.
    Shut it, ya nonce!

Information about nonces

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of nonces is: nonce.
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Hyphenation of nonces

nonces

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
  • nonces is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

Anagrams of nonces

connes

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