Blackadder vocabulary

Blackadder: Baldrick, why are you wearing a false boil? What are we to expect next: a beauty wart? a cosmetic verruca?

Baldrick: It’s a scarlet pimple, sir.

BBC. Blackadder. Season 3, Nob and Nobility.

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We must not be too sagacious in judging people by the little excrescences of their character. Ex pede Herculem may often prove safe enough, but ex verruca Tullium is liable to mislead a hasty judge of his fellow-men.

Oliver Wendell Holmes. The Poet at the Breakfast Table