nonking

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noun

One who, or that which, is not a king.

Scrabble 12

Meanings

nounnonking (plural nonkings)

plural nonkings

  1. One who, or that which, is not a king.

    A babatangan is a nonking whose future kingship was predicted by a priest...

    2006, Soedjatmoko, An Introduction to Indonesian Historiography, page 96
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    Similarly, for each of the other draws, the probability of a nonking is 12/13.

    1983, Edwin Arthur Maxwell, Introduction to statistical thinking, page 161

    In short, the oath was more than anything a way of uniting Creoles and Spaniards of all political stripes under one banner; no one objected to swearing allegiance to a nonking.

    1993, Nicolas Shumway, The Invention of Argentina, page 22

Origin

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