rum nose

Questions about rum nose

What is another word for rum nose?

It depends which rum nose you mean. In the sense “enlargement of the nose with dilation of follicles and redness and prominent vascularity of the skin; often associated with excessive consumption of alcohol”, the synonyms are rhinophyma, hypertrophic rosacea, toper's nose, brandy nose, rum-blossom, potato nose, hammer nose, copper nose. Across all 1 sense there are 8 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of rum nose?

WordNet records no antonym for rum nose. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for rum nose come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

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• Full entry for rum noseAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for rum noseWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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