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Wart vs Warg - What's the difference?

wart | warg |

As nouns the difference between wart and warg

is that wart is a type of deformed growth occurring on the skin caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV) while warg is a type of particularly wild or hostile wolf.

wart

English

(wikipedia wart)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (pathology) A type of deformed growth occurring on the skin caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV).
  • Any similar growth occurring in plants or animals, such as the parotoid glands in the back of toads.
  • (computing, programming, slang, derogatory) Any of the prefixes used in Hungarian notation.
  • * 1998 , "Chris Ahlstrom", Hungarian notation'' (on newsgroup ''microsoft.public.vc.language )
    • Hungarian warts suck big time! If you need them, your functions are too big and your class interface is much too fat.
  • * 2002 , "Linonut", Computer Science'' (on newsgroup ''comp.os.linux.advocacy )
    • Far easier to not use warts in the first place. Even if a wart is present, you still have to verify the variable's declaration anyway, if you're a diligent maintenance programmer.

    Derived terms

    * genital wart * Peruvian wart * plantar wart * wall wart * warthog * warty * warts and all * warty toad

    See also

    * verruca ----

    warg

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (fantasy fiction, mythology) A type of particularly wild or hostile wolf.
  • *1937 , , The Hobbit :
  • *:Every now and then all the Wargs in the circle would answer their grey chief all together [...].
  • * 1993 , "jbatka", Multiple colors for PC compatible'' (on newsgroup ''rec.hack )
    • My question is do all of the executable versions for PC compatibles have the color option enabled? If so, what am I missing to not get say yellow for a hill orc, grey for a goblin, white for my pet, red for a wolf, brown for a warg , etc?
  • *1999 , , A Clash of Kings , Bantam 2011, p. 462:
  • *:He'd bought a ton of silver to forge magic swords that would slay the Stark wargs .
  • *2007 , Stephen O Glosecki, Myth in Northwest Europe :
  • *:The monsters are identified not as trolls, a word apparently not available in English at the time, but (among other things) as wargs , whatever that means; Grendel is called a heoro-wearh'' at line 1267 and his mother a ''grund-wyrgen at line 1518.