cauliflower ear
noun1
Boxing, Government, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Martial arts, Medicine, Military, Pathology, Politics, Sciences, Sports, War, Wrestling An ear swollen and deformed by repeated blows, common among boxers and rugby players.
- A huge man with a notable cauliflower ear was peering into the car, a scowl of suspicion upon his face.1928 February 25 – March 3, Arthur Conan Doyle, “When the World Screamed”, in The Professor Challenger Stories […], London: John Murray, […], published [1952], →OCLC, page 560:
- Having gone in a lot for boxing from his earliest years, he had the cauliflower ear of which I had spoken to Aunt Dahlia and in addition to this a nose which some hidden hand had knocked slightly out of the straight.1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter III, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC: