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BRANDY NOSE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does brandy nose mean?
• BRANDY NOSE (noun)
The noun BRANDY NOSE has 1 sense:
1. enlargement of the nose with dilation of follicles and redness and prominent vascularity of the skin; often associated with excessive consumption of alcohol
Familiarity information: BRANDY NOSE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Enlargement of the nose with dilation of follicles and redness and prominent vascularity of the skin; often associated with excessive consumption of alcohol
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
brandy nose; copper nose; hammer nose; hypertrophic rosacea; potato nose; rhinophyma; rum-blossom; rum nose; toper's nose
Hypernyms ("brandy nose" is a kind of...):
rhinopathy (any disease or malformation of the nose)
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