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- Any sequence of sounds or letters which is not considered to be a word, whether through an accidental gap (for example, phextapher-styphren) or through a systematic gap (for example, fssstpklyitnbkdv).
- 1986, Daniel G. Marowski, Contemporary Literary Criticism, page 382:
- […] trashola prose features regular dollops of sub-literate laziness (including non-words like "arousement" and "assertation").
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