Sneezer

//ˈsniːzə// noun, slang

noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Someone who sneezes.

    "Hay feverites will be interested to know that Sydney Smith was also a sneezer."

  2. 2
    a person who sneezes wordnet
  3. 3
    A person's nose. slang

    "He punched me right in the sneezer!"

  4. 4
    Prison. US, dated, slang

    "‘No cure for lads like you, is there?’ he said. ‘Except to throw you in the sneezer.’"

  5. 5
    A snuffbox. UK, obsolete, slang

    "He has been lagged for beaker hunting, was a mushroom faker, has been on the steel for snamming a wedge sneezer; […]"

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  1. 6
    A handkerchief. UK, obsolete, slang

    "Some person has deprived me of my East Indian silk handkerchief. — What, have you lost your sneezer?"

Example

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"Hay feverites will be interested to know that Sydney Smith was also a sneezer."

Etymology

From sneeze + -er.

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