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.

  1. inherited from fert
  2. derived from *perd-
  3. inherited from *fertaną
  4. inherited from *fertan
  5. inherited from *feortan
  6. inherited from ferten

Definitions

  1. 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?
  2. 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.
  3. 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[…].
  4. + 3 more definitions
    1. An irritating person

      An irritating person; a fool.

    2. One who is inflexibly meticulous.

    3. 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

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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