Thing Not To Be Today: verrucose.

To be verrucose is to be covered in warts (or things which look like warts).

It's fine if you're a frog:

Verrucose frog, India. Photo by L. Shyamal - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3160675

or a toad:

photo of a European fire-bellied toad by Marek Szczepanek

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.)