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English
Etymology
wart + -ish
Adjective
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,
- 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: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, 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.
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