This is a wug. I thought it was lonely, and so I got it a cute companion. So, I had one wug, and now I have two […] Please fill in the last word of that sentence. Go ahead and say it out loud. What ...

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You’d rather own a wug than a slithy tove—trust us. All this to say that the finer criteria for nonce words are debatable, and you could probably make an argument against the nonce-ness of any term in ...