sneeze-box

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Noun[edit]

sneeze-box (plural sneeze-boxes)

  1. (UK, slang, archaic) A snuffbox.
    • 1838, Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist:
      To think of Jack Dawkins—lummy Jack—the Dodger—the Artful Dodger—going abroad for a common twopenny-halfpenny sneeze-box!
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