sneezer
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈsniːzə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈsnizɚ/
Audio (General Australian): (file)
Noun
[edit]sneezer (plural sneezers)
- Someone who sneezes.
- 1884, Journal of Materia Medica, volume 23, page 58:
- Hay feverites will be interested to know that Sydney Smith was also a sneezer.
- 2002, Joy Hakim, War, Peace, and All that Jazz, page 22:
- In New York and Chicago, laws were passed making it illegal to sneeze or cough in public without using a handkerchief. Police dutifully hauled sneezers and coughers to court, where they were given stiff fines.
- (slang) A person's nose.
- He punched me right in the sneezer!
- (US, slang, dated) Prison.
- 1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin, published 2010, page 200:
- ‘No cure for lads like you, is there?’ he said. ‘Except to throw you in the sneezer.’
- (UK, slang, obsolete) A snuffbox.
- 1859, Snowden's Magistrates Assistant, page 497:
- He has been lagged for beaker hunting, was a mushroom faker, has been on the steel for snamming a wedge sneezer; […]
- (UK, slang, obsolete) A handkerchief.
- 1835, Charles Mathews, Mathews's New Budget of Fun, etc, page 156:
- Some person has deprived me of my East Indian silk handkerchief. — What, have you lost your sneezer?
References
[edit]- (snuffbox; handkerchief): John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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