atishooatichooint.n.
/aˈtɪʃ(j)uː/ = achoo int. and n.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > respiratory spasms > respiratory spasm [interjection] > sneeze
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > respiratory spasms > [noun] > sneezing > noise
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1873 R. Broughton Nancy iii. 41 I sneeze loudly and irrepressibly. Atcha! Atcha!]
1878 Punch 26 Jan. 36 A cough tears your ludgs, but a sneeze tears you through—A'd—gooddess!—it's cubbi'g—a-tschoo—A-tischoo!
1878 Hood's Comic Ann. 54 I've got such a cold. Er-tchiou—ertchiou!]
1892 I. Zangwill Children of Ghetto I. 112 Ezekiel sneezed. It was a convulsive ‘atichoo’.
1910 Punch 30 Nov. 383 There, that's all right. A-a-a-tishoo!
1960 Times 8 Jan. 11/4 A sneeze may still mean the onset of a pestilential cold in the head and the thought prevents our taking a proper pleasure in our involuntary atishoos.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
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