nonking
English
editEtymology
editNoun
editnonking (plural nonkings)
- One who, or that which, is not a king.
- 1983, Edwin Arthur Maxwell, Introduction to statistical thinking, page 161:
- Similarly, for each of the other draws, the probability of a nonking is 12/13.
- 1993, Nicolas Shumway, The Invention of Argentina, page 22:
- 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.
- 2006, Soedjatmoko, An Introduction to Indonesian Historiography, page 96:
- A babatangan is a nonking whose future kingship was predicted by a priest...