Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Resembling a wart; of or relating to a wart or warts; covered with warts or wart-like excrescences; verrucous.
Wiktionary
- adj. having warts
- adj. similar to a wart
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Having warts; full of warts; overgrow with warts.
- adj. Of the nature of warts.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. (of skin) covered with warts or projections that resemble warts
Etymologies
- wart + -y (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Alexander was a kind of warty red-orange creature who looked suspiciously like somebody in a suit.”
“1 First described by Lewis and Clark; now known as the warty salamander”
Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806
“Merriam-Webster's Dictionary defines it as: 1) a projection or outgrowth especially when abnormal (such as warty excrescences in the colon); 2) a disfiguring, extraneous, or unwanted mark or part (a blot); and 3) a by-product. ”
“Catty, we are all confident there are many personalities under that warty green skin.”
“We are subject, she continues, to the “visual impact of all these warty, unappetizing Jews”.”
Matthew Yglesias » Is The Universe a Hologram? Should We Care?
“Old, warty politicians scheming to get a piece of the pie.”
The DOOM that came from Gallup. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState
“Del, I don't know what kind of maidens you are used to kissing but a 3.5 inch turkey load tends to leave a "hickey" on my shoulder after each smooch ... even when that orange bead is held on the base of old Tom's warty neck!”
“CHAMPAIGN, Ill. mdash; After decades of trying to grow perfect, round, orange pumpkins, farmers have found many people believe nothing says Halloween like a warty, ...”
The Huffington Post: Pumpkin Farmers Profit From Odd, Ugly Varieties
“There are also specially bred varieties the like warty Knucklehead.”
The Huffington Post: Pumpkin Farmers Profit From Odd, Ugly Varieties
“After decades of trying to grow perfect, round, orange pumpkins, farmers have found many people believe nothing says Halloween like a warty, twisted gourd in a weird color.”
The Huffington Post: Pumpkin Farmers Profit From Odd, Ugly Varieties
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