wart
noun
[ wɔːt ]
• a small, hard, benign growth on the skin, caused by a virus.
Similar:
growth,
lump,
swelling,
protuberance,
carbuncle,
boil,
blister,
verruca,
corn,
tumour,
excrescence,
tumescence,
• an obnoxious or objectionable person.
• "what a bunch of nauseating little warts you are!"
Origin:
Old English wearte, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch wrat and German Warze .
