wartface
wartface noun: someone with a warty face.
Noun
wartface (plural wartfaces)
- Someone with a warty face.
- “No ship’ll ever find us in there, and we’ll stay there ’till we get home and report it—to old wartface.”1935 March, C. M. Miller, “The Shanghaied Patrol”, in Dare-Devil Aces, volume 9, number 4, Chicago, Ill.: Popular Publications, Inc., page 102, column 2
- The goblin on guard almost drops his spear in shock. He looks around, eyes wide. “Who’s there?” he calls. / “C’mere and help me, wartface!” Sir Robert growls back.1985, Roger E. Moore, Search for the Pegasus (Endless Quest; 2), Renton, Wash.: Mirrorstone, Wizards of the Coast, published 2008, →ISBN, page 41
Examples of wartface in a sentence
- Ever ready with swift fist or a quick twang of his catapult, Rusty was as tough as they come and his language was tough, too: ‘Yah, you’re a red-haired ape!’ and ‘Scram, wartface!’1987, Denis Gifford, Encyclopedia of Comic Characters: Over 1200 Characters, Harlow, Essex: Longman, →ISBN, page 182, column 2:
- “You just watch who you’re calling scrap iron, wartface.”1988, Barry B[rookes] Longyear, Naked Came the Robot, New York, N.Y.: Popular Library, →ISBN, page 155:
- I like how you said Veronica was furious . . . throwing things and stuff and how you’re going to turn her into a wartface.1988, Suzanne Brady, Suzanne Jacobs, “Children Responding to Children: Writing Groups and Classroom Community”, in Thomas Newkirk, Nancie...
- Wicked Queen: / Mirror, Mirror on the wall / Who is the fairest of them all? / Reflection: Not you, you wrinkled wartface!1991, Peter Gunning, Alas in Blunderland: A Play, Ideas for Costumes, Props, Sound Effects, Director’s Notes (Junior Theatre Workshop; 1)...
Forms of wartface
| plural | wartfaces |
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Origin of wartface
From wart + face.
Questions about wartface
- What does wartface mean?
- Wartface means someone with a warty face.
- How do you use wartface in a sentence?
- Ever ready with swift fist or a quick twang of his catapult, Rusty was as tough as they come and his language was tough, too: ‘Yah, you’re a red-haired ape!’ and ‘Scram, wartface!’
- What part of speech is wartface?
- Wartface is a noun.
- What is the plural of wartface?
- The plural of wartface is wartfaces.
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