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Nonce vs Pedos - What's the difference?

nonce | pedos |

As nouns the difference between nonce and pedos

is that nonce is the one or single occasion; the present reason or purpose (now only in for the nonce ) or nonce can be (british|slang|pejorative) a sex offender, especially of children; a paedophile or nonce can be (cryptography) a value constructed so as to be unique to a particular message in a stream, in order to prevent replay attacks while pedos is .

As an adjective nonce

is denoting something occurring once.

nonce

English

(wikipedia nonce)

Etymology 1

From a misdivision in (etyl) of .

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.
  • * 1857 , , chapter 6:
  • 'Idiot!' exclaimed the doctor, who for the nonce was not capable of more than such spasmodic attempts at utterance.
  • (lexicography) 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.

    Adjective

    (-)
  • denoting something occurring once.
  • Derived terms

    * for the nonce * nonce word * nonce borrowing

    Etymology 2

    , from Nancy boy. See for further discussion.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (British, slang, pejorative) A sex offender, especially of children; a paedophile.
  • That bloke who lives at number 53 is a nonce!
  • (British, slang) A stupid or worthless person.
  • Shut it, ya nonce!

    Etymology 3

    Contraction of number used once .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (cryptography) A value constructed so as to be unique to a particular message in a stream, in order to prevent replay attacks.
  • In this protocol we use the serial number of the message as a nonce .
  • * 1999 , Network Working Group, RFC 2617 – HTTP Authentication: Basic and Digest Access Authentication , The Internet Society, page 22,
  • The information gained by the eavesdropper would permit a replay attack, but only with a request for the same document, and even that may be limited by the server's choice of nonce .
    English nouns which have interacted with their indefinite article ----

    pedos

    English

    Noun

    (head)
  • Anagrams

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