A small hard bump that has come up on skin that was smooth before. It is not a mark you can wipe off; it stands up, it is firm, and it draws the eye to exactly the place you would rather nobody looked. Hold that picture and the rest of the word follows: the same bump on a toad or a pumpkin, the same unwelcome little lump on a plan, and finally a promise to show something with its bumps left in.
From the word’s history
Wart goes back to Old English wearte and to the same Germanic word that gives German Warze and Dutch wrat. The meaning has hardly moved: a small raised lump on the skin.
wart 可以追到古英語的 wearte，再往上是日耳曼語族的同一個字；德文的 Warze、荷蘭文的 wrat、瑞典文的 vårta 都是它的親戚。難得的是這個字的意思幾乎沒有變過，一直就是皮膚上凸起的小硬塊，所以核心畫面不用靠推測。
Wiktionary etymology for wart: "From Middle English warte, werte, from Old English wearte, from Proto-West Germanic *wartā... Cognate with Dutch wrat, German Warze, Swedish vårta" (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:363908206)
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