• Valmond@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    Isn’t a nonce some religious person in British?

    It’s also a cryptographic term for numbers used only once…

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        9 days ago

        If someone had asked me I’d said it’s derogatory, like “you fucking nonce!”, but also it’s a religious thing (not specifically pedo related 😁) but all I could find was “slang for pedo”.

        So I doubled down and here is where I went wrong:

        The Nonce apostolique is french for Nuncio in English.

        So nonce is pedo in English slang, and in french it’s a diplomatic representative of the pope.

        How appropriate!

        Cheers

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      9 days ago

      You could say it’s often a religious person, but not all. The Catholic Church is notorious for this, but really no greater amount of nonce than other religions.