FLATULENCE, FLATULENT
(also see FART)
ADJECTIVES
► FLATIVE flatulent; engendering wind → 1599 obs.
► FLATUOUS flatulent; full of wind or gas → 1580 obs.
► GASSY of a food or drink: causing wind or flatulence → 1918 orig. US
► QUAFFING producing flatulence → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► VENTOSE flatulent, windy → 1721
► VENTOSITOUS affected with flatulence; full of wind → 1616 obs.
► VENTOSOUS flatulent → 1639 obs.
► VENTUOUS flatulent, windy → 1398 obs.
► WINDY of food or drink: causing wind or flatulence → 1541 chiefly UK
NOUNS
► AEROCOLPOS vaginal flatulence; air or gas trapped in the vagina → 2001 (Bk.)
► BACK-TALK flatulence; a release of intestinal gas → 20C US jocular usage
► BLASTING flatuence; breaking of wind → 1475 obs.
► FLATULENCY flatulence → 1661
► FLATUOSITY flatulence → 1600 obs.
► GASEOUSNESS flatulence, gassiness → 1992
► GURRY an internal rumbling of the body due to flatulence → 1679 Eng. dial.
► PURSINESS flatulence → 1607 obs.
► QUAFFING flatulence → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► QUAWKING flatulence; an internal rumbling → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SUFFLATURE flatulence. distension with wind → 1660 obs.
► VENTOSENESS flatulence → a1425 obs.
► VENTOSITY flatulence → 1398
► WAFFLES flatulence → 1973 Sc.
► WINDINESS flatulence → 1413
► WINDMILL something that causes flatulence → 1616 humorous usage, obs.
► WINDY BLOWTS flatulence → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
VERBS
► INFLATE of food: to cause flatulence → 1528
► QUAWK to rumble internally through flatulency → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)