snoze
snoze is the alternative past of sneeze.
Meaning of sneeze
Verb
sneeze (third-person singular simple present sneezes, present participle sneezing, simple past sneezed or (obsolete or humorous) snoze, past participle sneezed or (obsolete or humorous) snoze or (obsolete or humorous) snozen)
- To expel air as a reflex induced by an irritation in the nose.
- To avoid passing on your illness, you should sneeze into your sleeve.
- Synonyms:
- neeze, sternutate
- To expel air as if the nose were irritated.
- To expel or displace (air, snot, etc) from the nose or mouth by the process above.
- Lily shook her head violently and sneezed a large blue-bottle fly from where that insect had perched itself on the tip of her nose.1924, Hugh Wiley, The Prowler, page 88
Questions about snoze
- What is snoze the alternative past of?
- Snoze is the alternative past of sneeze.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: snoze (page history and authors); sneeze (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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