where does the name 'nonce' come from.?

Question

George.Spiggot
2 minutes ago




I have heard the name nonce used on the Bill and bad girls referring to abusers of children. where does the name come from and what if you know is it's origin

Answer 1

i suppose it depends on whether youve ever done time or not. real crims,like myself, get arrested for armed robbery, fraud, drugs, etc etc. in teh criminal world were honest criminals. we have morals and we stick to them. we dont bash old ladies for their pension, we dont do sex crime..of any sort. most of us are family men, with kids and wifes... we hold them sacrosanct.

us real criminals are offended by these perverts, rapists and child molesters...its not honest crime. nonce is merely short for nonsense... and at every opportunity they get reminded of their crime, and with each reminder comes a little retribution.

Answer 2

Nonce means 'for the present time' or 'for a single occasion or purpose', although the word is not often found in general use. A dictionary may note nonce words, those for which there is only a single textual instance.

In the UK, the term nonce is a slang word used to refer to a sex offender, especially child sexual abusers, and thus as an insult. Folk etymologies for the origins of this word state that the word derives from Not Of Normal Criminal Ethos, used to mean an offender whose motivation was different from the purely acquisitive, or possibly Not On Normal Courtyard Exercise, for prisoners that were not to be mixed with the general population for their own safety.

As with most cases, these folk etymologies are examples of backronyms and should not be taken seriously. The actual origin of this word is unknown, but it is probable that it is derived from a combination of nancy, a derogatory term referring to homosexual males, and British prisoner slang for prisoners who have committed a "nonsense crime", as opposed to a crime such as theft.

Several websites have been set up claiming to give details of such people, however whether the information is reliable or not is another matter. Although nonce in the UK is traditionally a term for a sex offender, it is also sometimes used as a general term of abuse.

Answer 3

nonce Noun. 1. A sexual deviant, having been convicted of a sex crime against children.
2. An objectionable or contemptible person, by extension of the definition in noun 1.

That's that European slang meaning.

And, from Wikipedia:

Nonce means 'for the present time' or 'for a single occasion or purpose', although the word is not often found in general use. A dictionary may note nonce words, those for which there is only a single textual instance.
In security engineering, a nonce is a 'number used once'. It is often a random or pseudo-random number issued in an authentication protocol to ensure that old communications cannot be reused in 'replay attacks'. For instance, nonces are used in HTTP digest access authentication to calculate an MD5 digest of the password. The nonces are different each time the 401 authentication challenge response code is presented, thus making the replay attack virtually impossible. Some also refer to Initialization Vectors as nonces for the above reasons. In order to ensure that a nonce is used only once it should be time-variant (including a suitably granular timestamp in its value), or generated with enough random bits to ensure a probabilistically insignificant chance of repeating a previously generated value.
In the UK, the term nonce is a slang word used to refer to a sex offender, especially child sexual abusers, and thus as an insult. Folk etymologies for the origins of this word state that the word derives from Not Of Normal Criminal Ethos, used to mean an offender whose motivation was different from the purely acquisitive, or possibly Not On Normal Courtyard Exercise, for prisoners that were not to be mixed with the general population for their own safety. As with most cases, these folk etymologies are examples of backronyms and should not be taken seriously. The actual origin of this word is unknown, but it is probable that it is derived from a combination of nancy, a derogatory term referring to homosexual males, and British prisoner slang for prisoners who have committed a "nonsense crime", as opposed to a crime such as theft. Several websites have been set up claiming to give details of such people, however whether the information is reliable or not is another matter. Although nonce in the UK is traditionally a term for a sex offender, it is also sometimes used as a general term of abuse.

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RE:
where does the name 'nonce' come from.?
George.Spiggot
2 minutes ago




I have heard the name nonce used on the Bill and bad girls referring to abusers of children. where does the name come from and what if you know is it's origin

Answer 6

Wikipedia says:

In the UK, the term nonce is a slang word used to refer to a sex offender, especially child sexual abusers, and thus as an insult. Folk etymologies for the origins of this word state that the word derives from Not Of Normal Criminal Ethos, used to mean an offender whose motivation was different from the purely acquisitive, or possibly Not On Normal Courtyard Exercise, for prisoners that were not to be mixed with the general population for their own safety. As with most cases, these folk etymologies are examples of backronyms and should not be taken seriously. The actual origin of this word is unknown, but it is probable that it is derived from a combination of nancy, a derogatory term referring to homosexual males, and British prisoner slang for prisoners who have committed a "nonsense crime", as opposed to a crime such as theft. Several websites have been set up claiming to give details of such people, however whether the information is reliable or not is another matter. Although nonce in the UK is traditionally a term for a sex offender, it is also sometimes used as a general term of abuse.

Answer 7

As far as I know, only in the UK nonce is used as slang to describe sex crimes perpetrators. In general nonce means now, at the current time.

Answer 8

nonce is used to describe sex offenders in the English prison system mainly used by the cons themselves, sorry but don't know where or when it first appeared.

Answer 9

I think fivetoze has been watching to many Lock Stock type films. Nonce comes from "nonsense case" as sex crimes where referred to in Victorian court houses.

Answer 10

the origin of the word NONCE comes from NONCENCE.. back in the 50`s and 60`s men were arrested and sent to jail for rape of kids , they were often refered to as "Having a bit of noncence with a child"