1971 S. HOUGHTON Current Prison Slang (MS) 8 Nonse, sexual offender against children, pariahs in prison. 1975 Time Out 3 Jan. 7/1 What he told Seven Days about his experiences as a sex offender in prison raises a number of urgent questions on the subject of treatment and attitudes to ‘nonces’, the term used for them by other prisoners. 1984 Police Rev. 18 May 975/3 Nonce, prison term for a child molester. The very bottom of the prison pecking order, the ‘nonce’ is usually segregated from ordinary prisoners at all times for his own protection. Originally derived from ‘nancy-boy’. 1994 I. WELSH Acid House 8, I couldn't have done anything like that though, Jock, not to a little kiddie, that would make me no better than that fucking beast, that fucking nonce slag.
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