Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. large-nosed.

1568		U. Fulwell Like Will to Like (1874) 6: This was when my dame called thee bottle-nosed knave.
c.1592		Marlowe Jew of Malta III iii: Oh, mistress! I have the bravest, gravest secret, subtile, bottle-nosed knave to my master, that ever gentleman had.
1606		Wily Beguiled 13: I scorne that base, broking, brabbling, brauling, bastardly, bottlenos’d, beetle-brow’d bean-bellied name.
1751		W. Kenrick Falstaff’s Wedding (1766) IV vii: Hey! here he comes, with his bottle-nos’d man, that pick’d my pocket.
1848		Thackeray Vanity Fair I 162: Gouty, old, bald-headed, bottle-nosed Bullock Squire.
1866		W. Reid After the War 416: ‘A nigger’s just as good as a white man now,’ argumentatively observed a bottle-nosed member of the Legislature.
1869		Bradford Dly Teleg. 29 Jan. 4/5: The bottle-nosed Bishops in Erin’s Isle, / That wallow and roll in Popish gold.
1882		Dundee Courier (Scot.) 9 June 7/6: The bottle-nosed baker.
1887		F. Francis Jr Saddle and Mocassin 301: ‘Apache’ was a ragged, six-foot, dark-eyed, bottle-nosed, bibulous-looking, able-bodied ‘loafer’.
1906		Marvel 7 July 665: She mistook you for a bottle-nosed policeman.
1925		Dos Passos Manhattan Transfer 33: The bottlenosed man’s beef red face went purple.
1939		Cambridge Dly News 21 Sept. 1/3: Doesn’t that explode the hoary music hall gag of the bottle-nosed bullying sergeant?
1949		M. Leigh Cross of Fire 142: What’s obvious about a bottlenosed, bossy-eyed Boer, eh?
1953		Yorks Post 17 Apr. 4/8: Smee is the usual bottle-nosed comic of so many Disney films.

2. drunk.

1700		N. Ward A Frolic to Horn-Fair 11: And as for you, you Brandy Fac’d, Bottle-Nos’d, Bawdy, Brimstone Whore.
1824		‘Geoffrey Crayon’ Tales of A Traveller (1850) 46: The bottle-nosed host stood in the door.
1837		‘Public Life of Mr. Tulrumble’ Bentley’s Misc. Jan. 53: A merry-tempered, pleasant-faced good-for-nothing sort of vagabond [...] rejoiced in the sobriquet of Bottle-nosed Ned.
1858		R.S. Surtees Ask Mamma 219: Harriers are only for bottle-nosed old gentlemen with gouty shoes.
1880		R. Rowe Picked Up in the Streets 29: A worn-out little square piano seemed to shriek complaint against [...] its seedy bottle-nosed thumper.
1912		Yorks. Eve. Post 10 June 4/7: A shiny black hat, [...] exactly the shape which a bottle-nosed Parisian cocherman wears.

3. red-nosed, through excessive drinking.

1874

‘Old Calabar’ Won in a Canter III 47: ‘[Y]ou were so taken up today with old bottle-nosed Rasper’.

4. thus Jewish, in a derog., stereotyped context.

1906		Sun (NY) 7 Oct. 5/7: The marriage broker [...] began reading [...] ‘Rachel Wattenmacher; girl of 47, bottle-nosed, insists on a doctor’.
1922		Joyce Ulysses 308: One of the bottlenosed fraternity it was went by the name of James Wought alias Saphiro alias Spark and Spiro.