WORD FOR THE DAY: ACHOO

Your word for today is: achoo, v.

achoo, v.

[‘intr. To make the sound ‘achoo’; to sneeze.’]

Pronunciation: Brit. /əˈtʃuː/,  U.S. /əˈtʃu/

Forms:  19– achoo,   19– ahchoo. 

Etymology: <  achoo int.

  intr. To make the sound ‘achoo’; to sneeze.

In quot. 1898 used in a parody of the soliloquy in Hamlet iii. i. 58-67

1898 Chicago Daily News 8 Jan. 5/2 And by a-chooing end it—to sneeze, to snort—Ah, there's the grip.

1940 Chillicothe (Missouri) Constit. 12 Jan. 3/5 J. Roy Tucker..‘achooed’ so hard he broke a rib.

a1963  S. Plath Ariel (1965) 54 Barely daring to breathe or achoo.

1980 Jet 5 June 42/1 Tricia has been achooing every 15 seconds for seven months.

2001  A. M. Schoen Kindred Spirits (2002) ii. ii. 108 Sometimes he achooed three times in a row, each more violently than the last.

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