It's fine if you're a frog:

or a toad:

or a toadstool:
Fly agaric toadstool. Photo by MichaelMaggs
or verrucose sea-purslane (I can't see the warts in the picture, but presumably they're there):

All these life-forms can really bring off the warty look with aplomb. Witches, similarly, seem to view being verrucose as a sign of authority. For the rest of us, though...
...hey, but who knows where fashion will take us?
Still, we're not there yet.
Thing Not To Be Today: verrucose. This word comes from the Latin verrūcōsus, full of warts, from verrūca, a wart. (By the way, the plural of verruca can be either verrucas or verrucae. The latter is pronounced verrOOssee.)
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