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fise

noun

Etymology

From Middle English fise, fyse, from Old Norse físa (“to break wind”) (whence also Danish fise), from Proto-Germanic *fīsaną (“to break wind”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peys- (“to blow, breathe”). More at fist.

  1. derived from *(s)peys-✻
  2. derived from *fīsaną✻
  3. derived from físa
  4. inherited from fise

Definitions

  1. An instance of flatulence.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for fise. 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