fart

Definition

To emit digestive gases from the anus; to flatulate.

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.

Example Sentences

• "I fart with twenty ladies by; / They call me beast; and what care I?"
• "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."