Her baby has a perpetually running nose and a rash on his stomach. My uncle wiped his running nose with his sleeve. This expression is used very rarely it's literal and descriptive and can be understood as being too direct a reference to something that is unpleasant: Running nose has the same meaning but is used only to refer to a specific instance of this symptom, in contrast to the condition in general. I wish I could do something about my runny nose. Symptoms include runny nose, itchy eyes, and scratchy throat. Note also that the idiom is to have a runny nose: This is the term for the general condition of having a running nose and is used in a sentence like the word cold when it refers to an illness. Runny nose is the idiom that Americans use to describe what happens when your nose runs (that is, when liquid comes out of your nose because of a cold, allergy, or crying). Both terms are correct, but runny nose is much more common.
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