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sneeze-boxes

sneeze-boxes is the plural of sneeze-box.

Meaning of sneeze-box

Noun

sneeze-box (plural sneeze-boxes)

  1. (UK, dated, slang) A snuffbox.
    • To think of Jack Dawkins—lummy Jack—the Dodger—the Artful Dodger—going abroad for a common twopenny-halfpenny sneeze-box!1838, Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

Questions about sneeze-boxes

What is sneeze-boxes the plural of?
Sneeze-boxes is the plural of sneeze-box.

Words near sneeze-boxes in the dictionary

  1. sneeze gas
  2. sneeze guard
  3. sneeze guards
  4. sneeze on the truth
  5. sneeze-box
  6. sneeze-boxes
  7. sneezed
  8. sneezed on the truth
  9. sneezefic
  10. sneezeguard
  11. sneezeguards

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