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nounemunction (countable and uncountable, plural emunctions)
plural emunctions
- countableformaluncountableThe act of wiping or blowing one's nose.
For that would have allowed me, before parading in public certain habits such as the finger in the nose, the scratching of the balls, digital emunction and the peripatetic piss, to refer them to the first rules of a reasoned theory.
1955, Samuel Beckett, Molloy, page 25
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