sneezery

Noun

sneezery (countable and uncountable, plural sneezeries)

1. (informal, rare, uncountable) Sneezing.
   • “The social education of our youth,” says Dr. Farquarharson Fohsnip, “is too one-sided. Although well-schooled in manners generally, not one child in a hundred can sneeze with grace.[”] To revive the art of beautiful sneezing, Dr. Fohsnip conducts tutorials, teaching his pupils from phonograph...1930 October 18, Dr. Seuss [pseudonym; Theodor Seuss Geisel], “Three Fine Social Arts We Are Prone to Neglect”, in Jack Shuttleworth, editor, Judge, volume 99, number 2555, New York, N.Y.: Judge...
   • NOW that spring has come to town, the streets no more are slippery; instead, the cold drops down your neck tell you the eaves are drippery. No longer need you rub your ears to chafe them free from freezery; instead, you’re far too busy with your hankie and your sneezery.1936 March 4, T. W. J., “[The Jay-Walker] Vile Winter Gets Gate”, in The Toronto Daily Star, 44th year, Toronto, Ont.: Toronto Star, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6, column 7
2. (countable, humorous, informal, rare) A place for sneezing.
   • A good way to prevent the spread of colds in the head is to cork up your sneeze untill^([sic]) the town dads can be prevailed upon to erect a sneezery[.]1921 February 8, The Lebanon Times, volume XXXV, number 72, Lebanon, Kan.: H. L. Wright, →OCLC, page [2], column 4
   • However, it was not until 1873 that the last Pennsylvania German district accepted the law. In one section, not far from Elizabethtown, an opposer threw red-pepper on a red-hot stove in a discussion meeting and changed it from a discussery to a sneezery and an outcry.1939 November 3, “Hon. Thaddeus Stevens Saves the Day”, in Elizabethtown Chronicle, volume LXXI, number 6, Elizabethtown, Pa.: J. G. Westafer & Son, →OCLC, page 6, column 5