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sneezers

sneezers is the plural of sneezer.

Meaning of sneezer

Noun

sneezer (plural sneezers)

  1. Someone who sneezes.
    • Hay feverites will be interested to know that Sydney Smith was also a sneezer.1884, Journal of Materia Medica, volume 23, page 58
  2. (slang) A person's nose.
    • He punched me right in the sneezer!
  3. (US, dated, slang) Prison.
    • ‘No cure for lads like you, is there?’ he said. ‘Except to throw you in the sneezer.’1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin, published 2010, page 200
  4. (UK, obsolete, slang) A snuffbox.
    • He has been lagged for beaker hunting, was a mushroom faker, has been on the steel for snamming a wedge sneezer; […]1859, Snowden's Magistrates Assistant, page 497
  5. (UK, obsolete, slang) A handkerchief.
    • Some person has deprived me of my East Indian silk handkerchief. — What, have you lost your sneezer?1835, Charles Mathews, Mathews's New Budget of Fun, etc, page 156

Questions about sneezers

What is sneezers the plural of?
Sneezers is the plural of sneezer.

Words near sneezers in the dictionary

  1. sneezeguard
  2. sneezeguards
  3. sneezeless
  4. sneezeproof
  5. sneezer
  6. sneezers
  7. sneezery
  8. sneezes
  9. sneezes on the truth
  10. sneezeweed
  11. sneezeweeds

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