wartface

plural wartfaces

1. derogatorySomeone with a warty face.

   “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

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   “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

   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

   Marianne uses pointing to tell Cindy exactly where in the text her words are working for her: / You said “one day a lizard crawled into Queen Veronica’s bed and the prince was walking by and she accused him of it” . . . and you didn’t just say the queen was very mean, you gave a lot of examples of how she was mean. 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 Atwell, editors, Understanding Writing: Ways of Observing, Learning, and Teaching; K–8, 2nd edition, Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, →ISBN, page 143

   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), Dublin: The O’Brien Press, →ISBN, page 27, column 2