Review: Arby's - Gyro. 1  Arby's Gyros (pronounced year-oh and not guy-ro) come with either thin-sliced roast turkey or beef along with Greek seasoning, tzatziki sauce, sliced red onions, shredded lettuce, and sliced tomatoes, folded inside of a pita. I had a coupon where they were two for $6 so I got one with turkey and one with beef.
By Richard Nordquist. Definition: A word coined or used for a special occasion. A compound construction made up for a particular occasion is sometimes called a nonce compound.As Thomas Kane notes below, nonce compounds (e.g., an anti-everything-wrong organization) are usually hyphenated. See also: 1  Buzzword. 2  Mountweazel. word coined or used for a special occasion. A compound construction made up for a particular occasion is sometimes called a nonce compound. As Thomas Kane notes below, nonce compounds (e.g., an anti-everything-wrong organization) are usually hyphenated. See also: 1  Buzzword.
A compound word is simply two or more words joined to create a new word with a meaning different from any of the individual words. There are compounds nouns, adjectives, verbs, and adverbs. Words may begin as open compounds and over time evolve into hyphenated compounds and then to closed compounds.