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Mr. Tom Posted 7 years ago
Vocabulary

Runny nose vs. running nose

Hi

Google Ngrams tell me that runny nose is far more common than running nose. Could you please tell me how the phrase running nose sounds to your native ears?

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=runny+nose%2Crunning+nose&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Crunny%20nose%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Crunning%20nose%3B%2Cc0

Thanks,

Tom

  

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nona the brit wrote the following in answer to the same question: I have a runny (adjective) nose when my nose is running (verb). I agree with that.

— Rover_KE

  • nona the brit wrote the following in answer to the same question: I have a runny (adjective) nose when my nose is running (verb).
  • I agree with that.
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nona the brit wrote the following in answer to the same question:

I have a runny (adjective) nose when my nose is running (verb).

I agree with that.

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