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Depends where you're from. In the U.S., anyone who currently self identifies as a patriot either is a nonce or supports one.
Isn't a nonce some religious person in British?
It's also a cryptographic term for numbers used only once...
i thought it was a slang that british call people PEDOS.
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
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.
See my answer below, nonce is french for the popes ambassador.