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sneeze

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishsnesen(“to sneeze”), alteration of earlierfnesen(“to sneeze”), fromOld Englishfnēosan(“to sneeze, snort”), fromProto-West Germanic*fneusan, fromProto-Germanic*fneusaną, fromProto-Indo-European*pnew-(“to breathe, pant, snort, sneeze”). Cognate with dialectalDutchfniezen(“to sneeze”),Old Norsefnýsa(“to snort”).

Compareneeze, fromMiddle Englishnesen, fromOld English*hnēosan(“to sneeze”), cognate withOld High Germanniosan(“to sneeze”),Old Norsehnjósa(“to sneeze”). Seeneeze.

It has been suggested that the change could be due to a misinterpretation of the uncommon initial sequencefn- asſn- (sn- written with along s),[1][2][3] although the change is regular, seen also insnore andsnort fromMiddle Englishfnoren andfnorten, and in lateMiddle Englishsnatted from earlierMiddle Englishfnatted(“snub-nosed”). Thefn- forms of all these words fell out of use in the 1400s.

Pronunciation

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sneezing sounds

Verb

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sneeze (third-person singular simple presentsneezes,present participlesneezing,simple pastsneezedor(obsolete or humorous)snoze,past participlesneezedor(obsolete or humorous)snozeor(obsolete or humorous)snozen)

  1. (intransitive, medicine) To expel air as areflex induced by anirritation in thenose.
    To avoid passing on your illness, you shouldsneeze into your sleeve.
  2. (intransitive) To expel airas if the nose were irritated.
  3. (transitive) To expel or displace (air,snot, etc) from the nose or mouth by the process above.
    • 1924, Hugh Wiley,The Prowler, page88:
      Lily shook her head violently andsneezed a large blue-bottle fly from where that insect had perched itself on the tip of her nose.
    • 2010, Gunleen Deol,Sleepover Disaster, AuthorHouse,→ISBN, page15:
      When I crossed the road, Isneezed a big achoo! My nose started to feel itchy.
    • 2013, Sarah Hines-Stephens, Jane B. Mason,A Dog and His Girl Mysteries #2: Dead Man's Best Friend, Scholastic Inc.,→ISBN:
      I sneezed a bigsneeze. It was so big I hit my nose on the sidewalk. Bow-ow. There was a smell in my snout that I wanted to get rid of. And it wasn't Muffet's rotten soup odor, either. That was actually kind of delicious.
    • 2014, Fowler DeWitt,The Contagious Colors of Mumpley Middle School, Simon and Schuster,→ISBN, page89:
      “Okay,”he said, andsneezed a large drop of pinkish goop. “But you better have a lot to eat! I'll race you upstairs!” Wilmer shook his head. Sherman's hyper energy level seemed to have increased, and that was saying a lot.
    • 2017, Cressida Cowell,How to Train Your Dragon: How to Betray a Dragon's Hero, Hachette Children's,→ISBN:
      Toothlesssneezed a large amount of dragon snot right in Hiccup's face.

Synonyms

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Translations

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expel air as a reflex

Noun

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sneeze (pluralsneezes)

  1. An act of sneezing.
    Synonyms:(medicine)sternutation,(medicine)ptarmus
    Jared's hay fever gives him terriblesneezes.

Translations

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act of sneezing

Hyponyms

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Derived terms

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from all parts of speech

See also

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References

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  1. ^“sneeze”, inLexico,Dictionary.com;Oxford University Press,2019–2022.
  2. ^Douglas Harper (2001–2025), “sneeze”, inOnline Etymology Dictionary.
  3. ^word histories: sneeze

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