fart

verbnouncommon in dialogue

United Kingdom//fɑːt//
United States//fɑɹt//

To emit digestive gases from the anus; to flatulate.

verb

1
informalTo emit digestive gases from the anus; to flatulate.
I fart with twenty ladies by; / They call me beast; and what care I?
2
figurativeTo emit (fumes, gases, etc.).
Above his head the funnel farted black soot into the sky.
We’ve been stuck behind a Ford Escort farting black smoke for ten minutes.

Etymology

From Middle English ferten, farten, from Old English *feortan, from Proto-West Germanic *fertan, from Proto-Germanic *fertaną, from Proto-Indo-European *perd-. The noun is from Middle English fert, fart, from the verb.

noun

1
informalAn emission of digestive gases from the anus; a flatus.
I think I heard a fart. Was it you, Nigella?
Silent farts are often the smelliest.
Metrocles somewhat indiscreetly, as he was disputing in his Schole, in presence of his auditory, let a fart, for shame whereof he afterwards kept his house and could not be drawen abroad[…].
2
An irritating person; a fool.
3
One who is inflexibly meticulous.

Forms

plural: farts
past tense: farted
past participle: farted
present participle: farting
third person singular: farts

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fart · To emit digestive gases from the anus; to flatulate.

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