Meaning

(intransitive, informal) To emit digestive gases from the anus; to flatulate..

Definitions by Sense

1. (intransitive, informal) To emit digestive gases from the anus; to flatulate.
2. (transitive, figuratively, informal) To emit (fumes, gases, etc.).
3. (informal) An emission of digestive gases from the anus; a flatus.
4. (derogatory) An irritating person; a fool.
5. (Maine) One who is inflexibly meticulous.

Example Sentences

I fart with twenty ladies by; / They call me beast; and what care I?

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.

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[…].

Word Forms

• farts
• farting
• farted

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