cauliflower ear

cauliflower ear (plural cauliflower ears)

1. (boxing, wrestling, sports, pathology) An ear swollen and deformed by repeated blows, common among boxers and rugby players.

   Synonym: perichondrial hematoma

   • 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:

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

   • 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter III, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:

     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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