cauliflower ear

cauliflower ear (plural cauliflower ears)

1. (boxing, wrestling, sports) An ear swollen and deformed by repeated blows, common among boxers and rugby players.
   • 1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, When the World Screamed‎:

     A huge man with a notable cauliflower ear was peering into the car, a scowl of suspicion upon his face.

   • 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter III:

     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.

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