sneezery

plural sneezeries

1. informalrareuncountableSneezing.

   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

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   “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 records of the foremost maestros of sneezery.

   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 Publishing Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 20

   Now, as the hay-fever season approaches its best months, we commend to your attention a man who’s about tops in his a-choosen field. Dr. David Mezz, an eminent otolaryngologist, explains in a recent medical journal report that too many of us have never mastered the fine art of sneezery. A considerable number of us injure noses, sinuses or middle ears in wrongly performing this simple act.

   1965 August 2, “Gesundheit, Everybody”, in Leroy A. Simms, editor, The Huntsville Times, volume 56, number 133, Huntsville, Ala., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6, column 1

   Making fresh footfall in Lunar powder is an awe-dropping experience the first few times you do it, for it has lain there unmolested for half the age of the universe and more. But the thrill wears off, and there’s something to be said for stepping again and again in the same spots, for this does bit by bit grind the sharp edges off the dust. I wonder, Bertie, whether Harvest Moon will lend us a steamroller for a Lunar day, that we might grind down the grit of this entire valley, and save ourselves a bit of sneezery.

   2021 April 6, Wil McCarthy, “23 March”, in Rich Man’s Sky, Riverdale, N.Y.: Baen Books, →ISBN

2. countablehumorousinformalrareA place for sneezing.

   Guests unaccustomed to black pepper may retire to the sneezery.

   2002 June 5, LoRe, “Housing vibes (was Re: [OT] Mmm, books...)”, in alt.polyamory (Usenet), archived from the original on 13 Apr 2026

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   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

   If it isn’t a military secret, it might be added that the hayfever season has started. The local sneezery, much of it only a few feet from this observation point, has been trying to cancel this important bit of information. But nobody is deceived.

   1944 May 30, Robert J[oseph] Casey, “Those Channel Weather Reports Seem to Be of Doubtful Worth”, in George R. Kunkel, editor, The Corpus Christi Times, final edition, volume 34, number 251, Corpus Christi, Tex.: Caller-Times Publishing Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4, column 6