subs. (common).—A pimple caused by drinking to excess. Also COPPER-NOSE and JOLLY-NOSE. Fr., un nez culotté and un nez de pompettes.
1811. GROSE and CLARKE, Lexicon Balatronicum, s.v. GROG-BLOSSOM.
1883. HARDY, The Three Strangers, in Longman’s Magazine, March, p. 576. A few GROG-BLOSSOMS marked the neighbourhood of his nose.
1888. BESANT, Fifty Years Ago, ch. xi., p. 169. The outward and visible signs of rum were indeed various. First, there was the red and swollen nose, next, the nose beautifully painted with GROG-BLOSSOMS.
