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Your body's emergency reboot, firing snot at highway speeds because dust dared to enter.
means To expel air, mucus, and irritants suddenly and involuntarily through the nose and mouth, usually in response to irritation of the nasal lining.
from From Middle English 'snesen' or 'fnesen,' going back to Old English 'fnēosan,' to sneeze — that 'fn-' cluster (a cousin of words across the Germanic family) was meant to sound like the act itself. Over time the awkward 'fn-' likely got misread or reshaped into 'sn-', possibly nudged along by the related 'snore' and 'snort,' which also wear that nasal 'sn-' on their sleeve. The whole family is essentially the language imitating a nose doing something noisy.
- velocity
- Particles can travel up to 100 mph
- sun trigger
- Bright light makes a third of people sneeze
- eyes shut
- Your eyes close reflexively, every single time
- impossible asleep
- You can't sneeze while deeply asleep
- sneeze count
- Allergic fits can chain past thirty in a row
achoo — onomatopoeia for sneeze sound, documented in english dictionaries since 1766
gesundheit — german response to sneezes, adopted in english-speaking countries by the 19th century
achishoo — indian hindi transliteration of sneeze sound, common in south asian languages