cauliflower ear

English

Noun

cauliflower ear (plural cauliflower ears)

(boxing, wrestling) An ear swollen and deformed by repeated blows, common among boxers.
- 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.

Synonyms

perichondrial hematoma

Translations

swollen and deformed outer ear

Finnish: kukkakaalikorva
French: oreille en chou-fleur (fr)
German: Blumenkohlohr n

Norwegian:
Bokmål: blomkåløre n
Welsh: clust dew f, clust golifflŵar f

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