Green’s Dictionary of Slang

to confess.

1983

R. Klein Jailhouse Jargon and Street Sl. [unpub. ms.].

not to be spurned, not to be over-looked.

1818		Chester Courant 29 Sept. 4/2: P-m [...] has invented a new mixture [of snuff] - a good hit: not to be sneezed at.
1822		D. Carey Life in Paris 377: There were some bits of horse-flesh among them, that were not to be sneezed at after all.
1834		Ely’s Hawk and Buzzard (N.Y.) 21 June 1/1–2: An army of beings not to be sneezed at at all times — some had eels dangling to a string, others crabs slung over their shoulder, many with fish dragging along the pavement, and others who could not drag themselves along.
1847		Sun. Times and Noah’s Weekly Messenger 31 Jan. 2/6: Not to be sneezed at.
1850		F.E. Smedley Frank Fairlegh (1878) 333: Barstone Priory to live in, and more money than you know what to do with, ain’t to be sneezed at neither.
1865		Leaves from Diary of Celebrated Burglar 40/1: When we get to any place or station where there is a ‘push,’ a few lucky ‘dips’ ain’t to be sneezed at.
1865		Ardrossan & Saltcoats Herald 7 Jan. 2/6: Gold is not to be sneezed at.
1872		Western Times (Devon) 2 Aug. 5/5: Ghosts (not to be sneezed at).
1883		Cheshire Obs. 6 Oct. 3/2: The high-school girl severely reprimanded her brother yesterday for using the phrase ‘not to be sneezed at’.
1891		Sunderland Dly Echo 16 Feb. 2/6: Economy, too, is a thing not to be sneezed at.
1902		S.E. White Blazed Trail 84: Three hundred millions are not to be sneezed at.
1910		‘Doss Chiderdoss’ ‘A Derby Bet’ Sporting Times 28 May 1/4: If one man desires to be honest, and t’other man’s bank’s running short; / Well, a hundred odd’s not to be sneezed at.
1917		O.O. McIntyre New York Day by Day 6 Aug. [synd. col.] He earns $12 a week and that isn’t to be sniffed at these days.
1925		S. Anderson Dark Laughter 143: You did a good turn for us – fifteen thousand is not to be sneezed at.
1934		A. Halper Foundry 62: The chairman was materially rewarded by being exempted from paying dues, and this was nothing to be sneezed at.
1940		E. Curry Hysterical Hist. of Aus. 165: Those never-to-be-sniffed-at confections known as ‘Apples-on-Sticks’.
1943		C. McCullers Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1986) 310: ‘It’s not to be grinned at,’ said Bill. ‘That’s what I make.’.
1950		K. Amis letter 12 June in Leader (2000) 233: Working in a cafe helping with the washing-up there and getting abt £1 ½ for doing it a week which is not to be sneased at in these hard times.
1965		W. Dick Bunch of Ratbags 56: Still, fifteen or eighteen bob was not to be sneezed at.
1983		S. King Christine 285: In cold weather a sure ride was not to be sneezed at.
1992		M. Coleman Fatty 33: ‘The only thing I was dirty about was that it cost me 200 bucks’ And in 1978 $200 was not to be sneezed at.
2001		G. Hutchings Modern China 200: The ‘high degree of autonomy’ promised in the Joint Declaration was not to be sneezed at, but it fell far short of independence.

to perform cunnilingus.

1941		G. Legman ‘Lang. of Homosexuality’ Appendix VII in Henry Sex Variants.
1965		Guild Dict. Homosexual Terms 42: sneeze in the cabbage (v.): Cunnilinctus.
1972		B. Rodgers Queens’ Vernacular.
1982		Maledicta VI:1+2 (Summer/Winter) 134: sneeze in the cabbage (modern give head as a lawnmower or bumper sticker,etc.).
1992		C. Rayfield Haynes Growing Up Colored in Mississippi 61: ‘I don’t sneeze in the canyon.’ I started laughing, too, ‘They say John Spurlock sucks all those sisters.’.
2018		Twitter 21 Dec. 🌐 I love Kate's articles, not least for her wonderful use of the euphemisms. For example, ‘Sneezing in the cabbage’ just made me laugh out loud, quite literall.

(US drugs) to withdraw from narcotic addiction.

1938		D. Maurer ‘Lang. of the Und. Narcotic Addict’ Pt 2 in Lang. Und. (1981) 109/1: To sneeze it out. To kick the habit; cold-turkey. So-called because the addict’s withdrawal distress may take the form of violent sneezing.
1942		Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Sl.
1953		Anslinger & Tompkins Traffic In Narcotics 315: sneeze it out. To stop using drugs abruptly.
1959		J.E. Schmidt Narcotics Lingo and Lore.
1971		E.E. Landy Underground Dict. (1972).