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cauliflower ears

n. (plural of cauliflower ear English)

Usage examples of "cauliflower ears".

Flexible pink snout, bulging nostrils, cauliflower ears, bloodshot saucers for eyes, huge flippers, serpentine tail, scaly skin, and wide blubbery body, it eats only plankton.

He hadn't seen such a fine collection of cauliflower ears, broken noses and missing teeth since he left Karak Kadrin, the city of Slayers.

His usually placid nervous system was ruffled and a-quiver from the events of the afternoon, and his cauliflower ears still burned reminiscently at the recollection of the uncomplimentary words shot at them by Mrs.

The Monster had a flexible pink snout, bulging nostrils, cauliflower ears and two enormous ivory tusks.

Either Bobby's cauliflower ears have closed down on him or, like most professionals, he has a very poor regard for amateur coaches, no matter how high falutin'.

He had a heavy blue jowl, a broken nose, cauliflower ears and looked the sort who usually drives with others in hot and vengeful pursuit.

It was not many hours before night when the green men left, and after a leisurely meal of apple cheeks and cauliflower ears, Frito, Spam, and Goddam returned to the high road and passed quickly out of the forest and into the wide asphalt waste that lay beneath the eastern slope of Fordor.

She was surrounded by mocking faces sporting rotting teeth, broken noses, cauliflower ears and blinded eyes.

His floppy cauliflower ears were more sensitive than average ears, and even though his rainbow wig gave some protection, it didn't make any difference when someone was making noises that loud, that close to his eardrum.

Now, at fifty-five, he might be mistaken for a prizefighter who stayed in the sport too long: cauliflower ears, portobello nose, the humility of a basically sweet palooka who has learned the hard way that brute strength does not a champion make.

Softly, the voices in his head started to whisper that they really weren't his friends, but he covered his cauliflower ears and shouted until they stopped.

He had a blue jowl, a broken nose, cauliflower ears, looked the sort who usually drives with others in hot and vengeful pursuit.

His ears accounted for some of his earlier years: they were the thickened, twisted cauliflower ears of the pugilist.