Emunction
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The act of wiping or blowing one's nose. countable, formal, uncountable
"For that would have allowed me, before parading in public certain habits such as the finger in the nose, the scratching of the balls, digital emunction and the peripatetic piss, to refer them to the first rules of a reasoned theory."
Example
More examples"For that would have allowed me, before parading in public certain habits such as the finger in the nose, the scratching of the balls, digital emunction and the peripatetic piss, to refer them to the first rules of a reasoned theory."
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