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emunction

emunction noun: the act of wiping or blowing one's nose.

Noun

emunction (countable and uncountable, plural emunctions)

  1. (formal) The act of wiping or blowing one's nose.
    • 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.1955, Samuel Beckett, Molloy, page 25

Forms of emunction

pluralemunctions

Questions about emunction

What does emunction mean?
Emunction means the act of wiping or blowing one's nose.
What part of speech is emunction?
Emunction is a noun.
What is the plural of emunction?
The plural of emunction is emunctions.

Words near emunction in the dictionary

  1. emulsoids
  2. emulsor
  3. emulsors
  4. emuna
  5. emunah
  6. emunction
  7. emunctions
  8. emunctories
  9. emunctory
  10. emundation
  11. emunge

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