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snozen

snozen is the alternative past participle 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)

  1. (intransitive) 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
  2. (intransitive) To expel air as if the nose were irritated.
  3. (transitive) 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

See all 4 meanings of sneeze

Origin of snozen

Likely by analogy with freeze and frozen, but compare Old English fnoren, past participle of fnēosan.

Questions about snozen

What is snozen the alternative past participle of?
Snozen is the alternative past participle of sneeze.

Words near snozen in the dictionary

  1. snowy sheathbills
  2. snowy tree-cricket
  3. snowy tree-crickets
  4. Snowy Valleys
  5. snoze
  6. snozen
  7. snozzle
  8. snozzled
  9. snozzles
  10. SNP
  11. SNPP

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Adapted from Wiktionary: snozen (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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