Wart

Warts are non-cancerous viral growths usually occurring on the hands and feet but can also affect other locations, such as the genitals or face. One or many warts may appear. They are distinguished from cancerous tumours as they are caused by a viral infection, such as a human papillomavirus, rather than a cancerous growth.

Quotes

• Up-on the cop right of his nose he hade
  A werte, and ther-on stood a tuft of heres,
  Reed as the bristles of a sowes eres;
  • Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, General Prologue [describing the Miller]

• Barley-corn, barley-corn, injun-meal shorts,
  Spunk-water, spunk-water, swaller these warts
  • Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), Ch. 6

• My dear Veruca! How do you do? What a pleasure this is! You do have an interesting name, don't you? I always thought that a veruca was a sort of wart that you got on the sole of your foot!
  • Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964), Ch. 14