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flatulate en · VERB

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈflætjʊleɪt/
• /ˈflæt͡ʃəleɪt/

Etymology

Attested since the 19th century; either a back-formation from flatulence or borrowed from French flatuler, either way, see-ate (verb-forming suffix); ultimately from New Latin flātulentus, from flō (“to blow, breeze”).

Meanings

1. To fart, to emit digestive gases from the anus, especially with accompanying sound and smell.
   • 1985, James L. Framo, “Rationale and Techniques of Intensive Family Therapy,” in Intensive Family Therapy, Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy and James L. Framo eds. http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=kfmXSIJPvqEC&pg=PA206&lpg=PA206&sig=b3bCCRJV6GdT6XexcyD0xVyRv88, Where else but in his own castle, with his own family, can a person pick his nose, flatulate, lose his temper with impunity, whine, let the child in him emerge—in short, regress and “be himself”?
   • Horses defecate and flatulate on the move. 2001, David Kerans, Mind and Labor on the Farm in Black-Earth Russia:
   • Coordinate term: queef
   • While in the bathtub, he thought that he had to flatulate, but defecated instead. His mother had berated him mercilessly. 2003, Vamik D Volkan, The Third Reich in the Unconscious:
   • This, reader, is where the true meaning of #Fartgate came alive. Arguing over who flatulated on MSNBC—or whether anyone did at all—isn’t the point. The point is that Twitter used to be about goofing off and making each other laugh. 2019 November 19, Angela Watercutter, “With #Fartgate, Twitter Was a Gas Once Again”, in WIRED:

Forms

Deriveds

flatulation · flatulator · flatulater

Relateds

flatus · flatulent · pht · blaat · prrt · phrrt · braap · defecate · frrt · splorp · he who smelt it dealt it · phrrp

Synonyms

let rip · guff · let one go · pump · fart · let loose · pass gas · crepitate · pass wind · let one loose · poop · toot · cut the cheese · cut one · let one rip · rip one · curmur · break ass · grunt · break wind · bust ass · squeeze one out · poot · blow off · flatulate · drop a bomb · rip ass · drop one's guts · let fluffy off the chain · step on a duck · see Thesaurus:flatulate · trump · badger · cut one loose · step on a frog

Translations (6)

fr flatuler (to flatulate) · ab апызра (to flatulate) · ota اوصورمق (to flatulate) · ota یللنمك (to flatulate) · ru испускать газы (to flatulate) · de flatulieren (to flatulate)