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noninhaler en · NOUN

Etymology

From non- + inhaler.

Meanings

  1. One who avoids inhaling the smoke from a cigarette, pipe, etc.
    • In her slim and jaunty new graphic novella, “These Things Ain’t Gonna Smoke Themselves,” the cartoonist Emily Flake riffs on her perverse, self-destructive habit for an audience of willful creative types like herself who know cigarettes are bad for them but can’t bear to join the ranks of safe, tedious noninhalers. 2007 August 19, Liesl Schillinger, “Light ’Em if You Got ’Em”, in New York Times:

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Relateds

noninhaling · noninhalation