Green’s Dictionary of Slang

one who has a large, prominent nose; or a bruised nose.

1616		W. Haughton English-Men For My Money F2: Goes the case so well signor bottle-nose?
1639		J. Taylor Crabtree Lectures 227: Take heed of a Bottle-nose, one whose nose turnes up againe like a Shooing-horn.
1707		N. Ward London Terraefilius I 7: Behold the Maritime Deportment of Captain Crampos [...] what a Bottle Nose.
1807		Lancaster Gaz. 19 Dec. 4/1: With a big bottle nose and an acre of chin, / His whole physiognomy ugly as sin.
1823		[C.M. Westmacott] Mammon in London 1 85: One of those nasal execrescences which vulgar naturalists describe [as] bottle-nose [...] being extremely rubicund.
1858		G. Thompson Gay Girls of N.Y. 95: I dined with Bottlenozzle, the Russian ambassador.
1861		C.S. Calverley ‘Gemini & Virgo’ Works (1901) 6: We met, we ‘planted’ blows on blows: [...] My rival had a bottle-nose, / & both my eyes were sable.
1866		Dervyshire Advertiser 18 Jan. 3/1: How annoying it must be for a teetotaller to have a bottle-nose!
1878		F.H. Hart Sazerac Lying Club 160: ‘Smith?’ said the boy, ‘which Smith do you want? Let’s see – there’s big Smith and Little Smith [...] Bottle-nose Smith.’.
1884		Leicester Chron. 7 June 12/2: ‘Serves you right, old bottlenose,’ said another tramp.
1893		P.H. Emerson Signor Lippo 48: I always get a drop for me and old Bottle Nose.
1898		W. Besant Orange Girl I 92: At forty-five his circumference is great: his neck is swollen; his cheek is red: perhaps his nose has become what is called a Bottle.
1925		Dos Passos Manhattan Transfer 29: The man with the bottle nose leaned over.