fart
verb/fɑːt/UK/fɑɹt/US
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.
Definitions
To emit digestive gases from the anus
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.
An emission of digestive gases from the anus
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.
- 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[…].
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An irritating person
An irritating person; a fool.
One who is inflexibly meticulous.
A trans-exclusionary radical feminist (TERF).
- Reminder that FARTs don't actually believe trans women are men. They don't speak to people they think are men the way they do to trans women.
- “Blaming trans people for everything” is to FARTs as Three Blind Mice is to the bloody recorder.
- Tellingly, FARTs often end up in alliance with other far right movements with xenophobic, white supremacist, and nativist and ethno-nationalist reactionary politics.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for fart. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA