fart

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Hard to translate, but Anorak's resident professor of Fartology assures us that the fart is an inner cry for help and Ms Wiseman should connect with her inner gas if she is to score a spot of Me And My Wind, the new celebrity-recycling show on Five, and / or Channel 4's 100 Best Emissions.

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  1. intransitive verb To expel intestinal gas through the anus; break wind.
  2. noun An often audible discharge of intestinal gas.
  3. noun An annoying or foolish person.
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  • After a few steps it was easy to think the whole episode was a brain fart, my bout with the pink elephants. —  FSF,June2006
  • They signal an alarm when you fart, and yes there's a vibrate mode and an airplane mode. —  MacDailyNews
  • "A fart is a message to the brain that poo is on the next train." —  Anorak News
  • Hard to translate, but Anorak's resident professor of Fartology assures us that the fart is an inner cry for help and Ms Wiseman should connect with her inner gas if she is to score a spot of Me And My Wind, the new celebrity-recycling show on Five, and / or Channel 4's 100 Best Emissions. —  Anorak News
  • SteveJobs Air ... eeww that sounds like a fart or something. —  Original Signal - Transmitting Digg
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English farten, from Old English *feortan; see perd- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English farten, from Anglo-Saxon feortan = Old Saxon fertan = Low German furten = Old High German ferzan, Middle High German varzen, verzen, vurzen, German farzen, furzen = Icelandic freta (for *ferta) = Swedish fjerta = Danish fjerte = Latin pedere (for *perdere) = Greek πέρδειν, = Lithuanian persti = Lettish pirst = Sanskrit pard.
  2. from Middle English fart, fert, from Anglo-Saxon feort = Old High German firz, furz, Middle High German G. farz, furz = Icelandic fretr = Swedish Danish fjert = Greek πορδή; from the verb.
 

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