Emunction
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Emunction is a noun meaning (formal) The act of wiping or blowing one's nose.
Meaning
(formal) The act of wiping or blowing one's nose.
Example Sentences
For that would have allowed me, before parading in public certain habits such as the finger in the nose, the scratching of the balls, digital emunction and the peripatetic piss, to refer them to the first rules of a reasoned theory.
Word Forms
- emunctions
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include effacement, expunction, wiping, extersion, erasure, elimination.
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