fart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: färt
ipa: /fɑːt/
enpr: färt
ipa: /fɑɹt/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: farts
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.
Senses: examples: text: I think I heard a fart. Was it you, Nigel?
text: Silent farts are often the smelliest.
text: 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[…].
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
glosses: An emission of digestive gases from the anus; a flatus.
glosses: An irritating person; a fool.
glosses: One who is inflexibly meticulous.
Synonyms: sense: emission of gases
word: flatus
Derived terms: sense: terms derived from the noun and verb
word: all fart and no poo
sense: terms derived from the noun and verb
word: all fart and no shit
sense: terms derived from the noun and verb
word: armpit fart
sense: terms derived from the noun and verb
word: brain fart
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word: cackle-fart
sense: terms derived from the noun and verb
word: catchfart
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word: cunt fart
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word: duck fart
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word: fanny fart
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word: fart about
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word: fart around
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word: fart-arse
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word: fart box
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word: fart-breath
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word: fartcatcher
sense: terms derived from the noun and verb
word: fartee
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word: farter
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word: fartette
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word: fartface
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word: fart fan
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word: fartful
sense: terms derived from the noun and verb
word: farthead
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word: farthole
sense: terms derived from the noun and verb
word: fart in an elevator
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word: fart in a spacesuit
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word: fart in a windstorm
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word: fart in a wind storm
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word: farting
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word: fart in the wind
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word: fartknocker
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word: fart knocker
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word: fart-knocker
sense: terms derived from the noun and verb
word: fartless
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word: fartlike
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word: fart off
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word: fartometer
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word: fart out
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word: fart sack
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word: fartsome
sense: terms derived from the noun and verb
word: fart squirrel
sense: terms derived from the noun and verb
word: fart tax
sense: terms derived from the noun and verb
word: farty
sense: terms derived from the noun and verb
word: like a fart in church
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word: nun's fart
sense: terms derived from the noun and verb
word: old fart
sense: terms derived from the noun and verb
word: outfart
sense: terms derived from the noun and verb
word: pissed as a fart
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word: pussy fart
sense: terms derived from the noun and verb
word: shart
sense: terms derived from the noun and verb
word: silent fart
sense: terms derived from the noun and verb
word: snart
sense: terms derived from the noun and verb
word: sparrow-fart
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word: sparrow fart
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word: sparrow's fart
sense: terms derived from the noun and verb
word: tinker's fart
sense: terms derived from the noun and verb
word: wankfart
sense: terms derived from the noun and verb
word: wet fart
Related terms: burp
flatulence
flatulent
flatus
queef
wind