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.
In general, the meaning of a compound noun is a specialization of the meaning of its head. The modifier limits the meaning of the head. This is most obvious in descriptive compounds (known as karmadharaya compounds in the Sanskrit tradition), in which the modifier is used in an attributive or appositional manner.