Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To expel intestinal gas through the anus; break wind.
- n. An often audible discharge of intestinal gas.
- n. An annoying or foolish person.
- fart around To fool around; fritter time away.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To discharge or expel wind through the anus; break wind.
- n. A discharge of wind through the anus.
- n. A Portugal fig.
Wiktionary
- v. informal, mildly vulgar To emit digestive gases from the anus; to flatulate.
- v. colloquial To waste time with idle and inconsequential tasks; to go about one's activities in a lackadaisical manner; to be lazy or over-relaxed in one's manner or bearing.
- n. colloquial, vulgar An irritating person; a fool.
- n. colloquial, vulgar, potentially offensive (usually as "old fart") An elderly person; especially one perceived to hold old-fashioned views.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus
- v. expel intestinal gases through the anus
Etymologies
- From Middle English ferten, farten, from Old English *feortan (in feorting (verbal noun)), from Proto-Germanic *fertanan (compare German farzen, furzen, Norwegian fjert), from Proto-Indo-European *perd-, *pérde. Cognate to Welsh rhech, Albanian pjerdh, Russian пердеть, French péter, Ancient Greek πέρδομαι (perdomai), Sanskrit पर्दते (párdate). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English farten, from Old English *feortan. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“An occasional brain fart is funny, but if it's a symptom of something deeper that's actually serious.”
“Saying the word 'fart' makes me laugh, he tells the mag.”
“Dd. P.S. Seriously, though, I learned that a fart is a “social non-event.””
If Your Child Farts In A Forest, And You Laugh, Will Anybody Hear It And Judge You? | Her Bad Mother
“Katie isn’t or wasn’t running as VP … a little brain fart is okay, for Palin for the flatulence is annoying and stinks to high heaven!”
“Having some transindental brain fart and not being able “to look at something I've killed” is a load of poopy (sorry, need to keep this clean for the kids).”
“If Obama suddenly had a brain fart and appointed Easterbrook to SCOTUS, think Republicans would complain?”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Taking ObamaCare Challenges Seriously
“A fact the renders the rest of your meanderings as the intellectual equivalent of a brain fart in the heaping pile of for-profit manure.”
“February 22nd, 2010 at 5: 23 pm linzloo08 brought to you by I Want My Country Back, Inc.!! says: is = it brain fart ..”
“Sorry brain fart … this is my stupid moment for the week and I thank you for the correction.”
“I had a temporary brain fart and mixed those two books up.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘fart’.
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Unknown
coalition, cabinet, tweet, defuse, steep, ancestral, mindset, breach, infraction, egregious, curb, backbite and 282 more...
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Public List: Two by Fives
This is an experiment in public lists--something I've been thinking about for some time. The goal is to create a collection of short, powerful, evocative words.
This is an open list. A...icy, howl, hymn, thorn, fire, vile, mist, blunt, scum, dark, shot, gleam and 221 more...
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UK Usage - Find US Equivalent
All these terms have a (different) American English equivalent. Wonder if you can identify them?
abridgement (abri..., accoutrement, accoutre, acknowledgement (..., opposite, advert, adaptor, adapter, sticking plaster, advertise, adviser (advisor ..., adze, aesthete and 1196 more...
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funny & derogatory
WARNING: VERY EXPLICIT. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
funny derogatory names, quotes, phrases.
( open list, randomness, ad hom, ad hominem )
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buttfucking quitter, dirty sanchez, donkey punch, falcon punch, assbadger, unicorn turd, assclown, fudgenut, quackery, friggin homo, buttmuncher, jackwagon and 274 more... -
It's an art
applecart, arterial, arthology, artesian, arthropod, arthrostraca, artifex, artificial, articulate, articling, artichoke, blue darter and 51 more...
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elementjif's list
random.
fart, ookiechava, police, jizz, pain, word, poop stain, poop, lol, crazy, mommy, hitler and 1 more...
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1755
Interesting words appearing in Samuel Johnson's Dictionary (1755). Some are interesting for their unfamiliarity, and some for the meanings then assigned by Johnson.
absonous, adumbrate, agrammatist, alderlievest, ambages, ana, anfrantuous, aperitive, assapanick, babery, bellytimber, blatant and 103 more...
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Fun Words
Words that are fun to say....
gobbledygook, jings, crivens, hullabaloo, wheech, brouhaha, pizzazz, harum-scarum, namby-pamby, pussyfoot, frippery, pitter-patter and 333 more...
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strangelyrouge's Words
glockenspiel, gewgaw, jetsam, flotsam, gripe, grab, wench, whilst, betwixt, hither, thither, yonder and 1034 more...
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The ugly ones
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Words I have to learn
exasperate, felony, weld, fraud, worksheet, ransom, rehearse, preliminary, offshore, parole, infamous, sieve and 436 more...
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Why We Curse: WTF?
This list collects the magnificent collection of vocabulary of the article "What the F***? Why We Curse," by Steven Pinker, in The New Republic (Oct. 2007). I think I'm more impressed with the coll...
curse, language, earthy, ancient, unthinkable, thinkable, emotional, rhyme, meter, alliteration, pleasure, metaphor and 196 more...
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hedges's Words
wii, crepuscule, adumbrate, concatenation, sufi, qawwali, furry, riot, mellifluous, conspiracy, etymology, tea cozy and 369 more...
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Name-Calling for Fun and Profit
I figured out the thing all these terms have in common, besides that they can be used as insults. They all crack me up.
drip, yahoo, dweeb, nimrod, wanker, nincompoop, weasel, skank, fussbudget, dink, twit, guttersnipe and 125 more...
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savage215's Words
pipe, yankee, knickerbocker, tennis, plasma, magma, volcano, car, truck, television, tv, word and 445 more...
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words I have an irrational and burnin...
celesbian, crouch, perez hilton, slop, lotus boob, anal fissure, eat out, crotch, sewage, backwash, vomit, pus and 100 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for fart.

bilby "A Fart, tho' wholesome, does not fail/If barr'd of Passage by the Tail,/To fly back to the Head again,/And, by its Fumes, disturb the Brain."
- Jonathan Swift.
Jan 29, 2013
reesetee Now oroboros, haven't I told you to use that site for good and not for evil? Nov 6, 2009
oroboros Hey, Jay! Pull my finger! (click on a hand) Nov 6, 2009
PossibleUnderscore According to Oxford dictionary: 'A small, uncontolled explosion between the legs'. lol Jul 17, 2009
tbtabby Means "exaggerating" in Turkish. Jul 13, 2009
Cajundweeb fart v. pass gas via the anal sphincter, usually accompanied by a noxious odor. Jun 8, 2009
CJ2A Used to describe an old man: "the old fart" or "he's an old fart." Never used in reference to a senior lady. Might refer to the tendency to flatulate or willingness to flatulate openly. Apr 13, 2009
Prolagus You know I'll never go
As long as I know
It's coming straight from a fart. Jul 9, 2008
bilby Like George Michaels sang:
Last Christmas
I gave you my fart
But the very next day you gave it away
This year
With an arse full of beer
I'm giving you something better ... Jul 9, 2008
Prolagus How to have fun with little effort:
Take a cheesy love song, and substitute heart with fart. Jul 9, 2008
skipvia See the list Firmament-Clogging Rottenness. Jan 4, 2008