fart
verb
- to expel gas from the anus
- expel gas
noun
- flatulence
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /fɑːt/ / /fɑɹt/
noun
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.
- An 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.”
- An irritating person; a fool.
- One who is inflexibly meticulous.
verb
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.
- To emit digestive gases from the anus; to flatulate.
“I fart with twenty ladies by; / They call me beast; and what care I?”
- To 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.”