hammer nose

Questions about hammer nose

What does hammer nose mean?

hammer nose means "enlargement of the nose with dilation of follicles and redness and prominent vascularity of the skin; often associated with excessive consumption of alcohol".

What is another word for hammer nose?

Close synonyms include rhinophyma, hypertrophic rosacea, toper's nose, brandy nose, rum nose. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hammer nose a common word?

hammer nose is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.