English

Verb

fnese

1. (obsolete) To breathe heavily, especially with snoring or snorting; to sneeze.
   • (Can we date this quote?), Geoffrey Chaucer, The Maunciples Tale:

     For, were it wyn, or old or moysty ale, / That he hath dronke, he speketh in his nose, / And fneseth faste, and eek he hath the pose.