English Explanatory Dictionary

fart

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To emit digestive gases from the anus; to flatulate.
  2. To emit (fumes, gases, etc.).
noun
  1. An emission of digestive gases from the anus; a flatus.
  2. An irritating person; a fool.
  3. One who is inflexibly meticulous.
noun
  1. A trans-exclusionary radical feminist (TERF).

Pronunciation

färt /fɑːt/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-fart.wav Fart-UK.ogg /fɑɹt/ Fart-Western-US.ogg

Word forms

fart farts farting farted

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.

Synonyms

beef blow off break wind cut one loose cut the cheese flatulate toot pass gas pass wind badger break ass crepitate curmur drop a bomb fart grunt guff let fluffy off the chain let one go let one rip poop poot pump rip ass rip one step on a duck step on a frog trump flatus GC GCF gendercrit gendercritter TERF terven

Related words

burp flatulence flatulent flatus queef wind

Derived words

all fart and no poo all fart and no shit armpit fart brain fart cackle-fart catchfart cunt fart duck fart fanny fart fart 808 fart about fart around fart-arse fart box fart-breath fartcatcher fartee farter fartette fartface fart fan fartful farthead farthole fart in an elevator fart in a spacesuit fart in a wind storm fart in a windstorm farting fart in the wind fartknocker fart knocker fart-knocker fartless fartlike fart-off fart off fartometer fart out fart sack fartsome fart squirrel fart tax fart through silk fart walk farty like a fart in church mare's fart nun's fart old fart outfart pissed as a fart pussy fart shart silent fart snart sparrow fart sparrow-fart sparrow's fart tinker's fart
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