nonce-word, the term used in this Dictionary to describe a word which is apparently used only for the nonce
The Oxford English Dictionary defines over 1000 nonce words, all of which are easily found by searching the full text for "nonce-wd," the OED's label for them. I don't have the desire to list them all, but I will list some of my favorites.
clam'jamphried ppl. a. (nonce-wd.) ? treated as clamjamphrie. [=‘Trumpery’ or worthless people, or those who are so viewed; rabble, mob, canaille; also ‘applied to the purse-proud vulgar]
cot'queanity (nonce-wd.), character or quality of a (female) cotquean. [=The housewife of a cot or labourer’s hut]
cotton-wool v. (nonce-wd.), to stuff or close (the ears) with cotton-wool.
dactylo'deiktous a. (nonce-wd.) pointed at with the finger;
del'phinity. A humorous nonce-wd. after humanity: Dolphin-kind, the nature of dolphins.
"touch-me-'not-ishness (nonce-wd.). Cf. stand-off-ish.
'towser, -zer v. trans. (nonce-wd.), to worry as a dog does.
tricho'maniac nonce-wd., a hair fetishist.
trou'serian a. nonce-wd., of or pertaining to trousers;
turni'pology (nonce-wd.), contemptuous term for phrenology;
twi-thought (nonce-wd. after twilight), an indistinct or vague thought;
ventripo'tential a. nonce-wd.; [=Having a large abdomen; big-bellied.]
† witchcraftical a. (nonce-wd.).
... and a thousand others.
1887 Stevenson Underwoods ii. vii. 100 An’ lea’s us puir, forjaskit men Clamjamfried in the but and ben He ca’s the earth.
1601 B. Jonson Poetaster iv. iii, We tell thee thou angerest us, cotquean; and we will thunder thee in pieces for thy cotqueanity.
1857 Motley Corr. 3 May, Cotton-wooling your ears absolutely to all hand-clapping and greasy mob applause.
1852 Times 27 May 5/6 Oxford must..be represented in politics..by an universally dactylodeiktous personage.
1860 Lever Day’s Ride x, History has never told that the dolphins..charmed by Orpheus were peculiar dolphins..they were..fish..taken ‘ex medio acervo’ of delphinity.
1837 Dickens Pickw. viii, There was a dignity in the air, a touch-me-not-ishness in the walk, a majesty in the eye of the spinster aunt.
c1680 Hickeringill Hist. Whiggism i. Wks. 1716 I. 37 If they get a piece of a Text by the end..they do so tear it, and towze it, and towzer it..that they lose themselves.
1949 R. Graves Common Asphodel 303 From descriptions in his poems it is clear that the first thing that he [sc. Milton] saw in a woman was not her bright love-darting eye (as it was to practically all his contemporaries), but her hair. He was, in fact, a *trichomaniac.
?c1820 L. Hunt Secret Existing Fashions Ess. (1887) 276 Round comes the kindly *trouserian veil,..the legs retreat..into retirement.
1885 G. Meredith Diana xxiv, Diana saw herself through the haze she conjured up. ‘Am I worse than other women?’ was a piercing *twi-thought.
1824 New Monthly Mag. XI. 313 A ventri-potential citizen, in
1676 Doctrine of Devils 84 Away with witchcraftical Doctors, away with the doctrine of Devils.