wartish
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wartish (comparative more wartish, superlative most wartish)
- Resembling (that of) a wart.
- 1876, The Poultry World, Hartford, Connecticut: H.H. Stoddard, Volume V, No. 5, May, 1876, p. 129,[1]
- The “scales” are occasioned by myriads of small insects, invisible to the naked eye, but clearly made out by the use of the microscope. They huddle in scales, or whitish-gray blotches, at first, upon the shanks of the fowl; and if not removed or destroyed early, will increase very rapidly until they form in wartish lumps like the caruncle on the neck of the turkey cock in appearance […]
- 1928, Robert Byron, chapter 15, in The Station: Travels to the Holy Mountain of Greece[2]:
- The sacristan was a strange little creature, with a pinched Mongolian face and only a few wartish hairs blossoming on his chin.
- 1949, Fulton Oursler, chapter 31, in The Greatest Story Every Told[3], Garden City, NY: Doubleday, page 132:
- Day and night she seethed with unyielding hatred that poisoned all her thoughts, ruined her digestion, and even inflamed her wartish blemish, a disfiguring defect on the temple beyond her left eye, too deep-rooted to be taken off.
- 1876, The Poultry World, Hartford, Connecticut: H.H. Stoddard, Volume V, No. 5, May, 1876, p. 129,[1]