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- noun nonce word A nonsense word with no intelligible meaning.
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Coined by Joyce; apparently a blend of consubstantial, transubstantiation, magnificent, magnify, Magnificat, Jew, bang, and -ity; perhaps modelled on transmagnificandubandanciality, which had been coined by James Clarence Mangan in 1884.
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