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You may be interested to know that 'nonce' is a very common and contemporary word used among the criminal classes of the UK to describe a sexual deviant e.g. paedophiles etc., especially in prison parlance. This would give a rather different slant on your quote "I pursed my lips and set aside my thirst for the nonce.
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Wow. Just wow. Now I am envisioning the culture of underworld UK as entirely Shakespeare-driven. Bragging blackhearts toasting comely wenches, eating apricocks and waxing bear-a-brain. It's a dream come true...
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Any idea how that meaning of nonce came about? Er, setting aside the theory that "the Complete Works of Shakespeare" is suddenly the most popular book in the prison library.
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I'm wondering if the word is really "nance" but pronounced as some might spell "nonce".
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