achoo

See also: ACHOO

English

Alternative forms

• ahchoo, ah-choo, a-choo

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

A baby sneezing.

A sneeze by an adult.

Pronunciation

• enPR: əcho͝oʹ, IPA^(key): /əˈt͡ʃuː/, /ɑːˈt͡ʃuː/
• (dialectal, rare) IPA^(key): /əˈt͡ʃʰuː/, /ɑːˈt͡ʃʰuː/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -uː

Interjection

achoo

1. (onomatopoeia) The sound of a sneeze.

   Achoo - I think I'm coming down with something!

Synonyms

• atishoo (UK)
• kerchoo

Translations

the sound of a sneeze

• Arabic: أَتْشُو (ʔatšū)
• Armenian: աչո (hy) (ačʻo)
• Bulgarian: апчиху (apčihu), апчих (apčih)
• Catalan: atxim (ca)
• Cebuano: hatsi
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 乞嗤

  Mandarin: 阿嚏 (zh) (ātì), 啊嚏 (ātì)

• Czech: hepčí (cs), hepčík
• Danish: atju
• Dutch: hatsjoe, hatsjie (nl)
• Esperanto: haĉum
• Estonian: atsihh (et)
• Finnish: atsii
• French: atchoum (fr)
• German: hatschi (de), hatzi
• Greek: αψού (apsoú)
• Hebrew: אפצ׳י (aptshí)
• Hungarian: hapci (hu)
• Italian: eccì, ecciù
• Japanese: ハクション (ja) (hakushon)
• Korean: 에취 (echwi)
• Latvian: apčī
• Madurese: ꦲꦱ꧀ꦱꦶꦩ꧀ (assìm)
• Navajo: hatsʼíhyaa
• Norwegian: atsjo
• Polish: a psik (pl), apsik (pl)
• Portuguese: atchim (pt)
• Romanian: hapciu (ro)
• Russian: апчхи́ (ru) (apčxí)
• Spanish: achís (es)
• Swedish: attjo (sv)
• Tagalog: hatsing
• Thai: ฮัดชิ่ว (hát-chîu), ฮัดชิ้ว (hát-chíu), ฮัดเช้ย
• Tigrinya: ሕንጥሸው (ḥənṭšəw)
• Turkish: hapşu (tr)
• Uzbek: apshu (uz)
• Vietnamese: hắt xì (vi)
• Yiddish: אַפּטשי (aptshí)

Noun

achoo (plural achoos)

1. The sound of a sneeze.

Verb

achoo (third-person singular simple present achoos, present participle achooing, simple past and past participle achooed)

1. (colloquial) To sneeze loudly; to make an "achoo" sound.

Anagrams

• Ochoa