Sneeze

v. i. [imp. & p. p. SNEEZED; p. pr. & vb. n. SNEEZING.] [See NEESE, and cf. A-S. fnēósan, to sneeze, fnēósung, a sneezing.] To emit air, chiefly through the nose, audibly and violently, by a kind of involuntary convulsive force, occasioned by irritation of the inner membrane of the nose.

Not to be sneezed at, not to be despised or contemned; not to be treated lightly. [Colloq.] “He had to do with old women who were not to be sneezed at, and middle-aged men who could use both club and cutlass.” Prof. Wilson.