sneezer

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A person who often lets out sudden noisy bursts of air through the nose

noun
/ˈsniːzər/

: estornudador

Call it what you will... sneezer, schnoz, beak, smeller, snout, schnoot... it all means the same thing.

Instead they must shout hail sneezer.

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Examples

That sneezer geezer's a psychiatrist.

Peeping Tom (1960)
The classroom was filled with sneezers when the teacher brought in flowers for the science experiment.
You my friend, are a sense-sneezer.

Copycat (2016)
My poor sneezer.

The Jungle Book 2 (2003)
Here, sneezers, coughers, and other disease broadcasters are required to smother their expectoration under a T-shirt.

Blog text (25)
During allergy season, many people become sneezers as the pollen fills the air.
As the cat wandered through the garden, it triggered several sneezers among the visitors.

Surface Forms

sneezer singular

sneezers plural

Morphology

sneezer = sneeze (transparent) = sneeze + er

Clear agentive formation from the verb 'sneeze' with the productive English suffix '-er' meaning 'one who performs the action'.

Etymology

Sneezer comes from the action word sneeze, which is a sudden 'blow' of air from the nose. The ending -er means 'someone who does something', so a sneezer is simply a person who sneezes.