Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The presence of excessive gas in the digestive tract.
- n. Self-importance; pomposity.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The state of being flatulent, or affected by wind in the stomach or other portion of the alimentary canal; windiness; hence, airiness; emptiness; vanity.
Wiktionary
- n. The state of having gas, often malodorous, trapped (and often released, frequently with noise) in the digestive system of a human and some other animals; wind; and when released, a flatus, a fart.
- n. The release of such gas, farting.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The state or quality of being flatulent.
WordNet 3.0
- n. pompously embellished language
- n. a state of excessive gas in the alimentary canal
Etymologies
- flatulent + -ence, of Latin origin, ultimately flō ("breathe, blow"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“It's true the Thames froze, it's true it changed over the past two centuries and doesn't freeze now, but no, frog flatulence is not the reason why.”
Real Caricature, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“Sounds like more flatulence from a conservative inbreeder.”
“There was absolutely no way anybody who has followed the Environmentalist Movement couldn't see this coming; a United Nation report now claims that cow flatulence is a major cause of Global Warming.”
“If we can regulate bovine flatulence, how long before human flatulence is regulated and taxed?”
“In the main, flatulence is made up of five gases -- nitrogen and oxygen, which are swallowed while talking, chewing or drinking fizzy beverages, and carbon dioxide, hydrogen and methane, which are produced in the gastrointestinal tract during digestion of food.”
“There are some people who are worthy of response – others who are the equivalent of brain flatulence are not.”
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“Flat-D, "the #1 name in flatulence odor control for humans and canines," offers products to mask the offending odor.”
“Quite what the Welsh Assembly thought it was going to gain by this piece of flatulence is unclear, but then a lot of that which the Welsh Assembly does strikes one as being otiose: perhaps there is a particularly large and vocal Armenian community in the pretty railway village of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch which is bursting to be propitiated.”
“Someone really needs to invent cyber Beano. jwest’s verbal flatulence is getting embarrassing.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘flatulence’.
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Sakhalinskii's list
Life in the ghetto after dark with a knife.
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Wild Ees
For words containing at least two instances of the letter E.
cerebration, concupiscence, flatulence, breed, screed, tweed, bleed, feed, steed, speed, deed, weed and 9 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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kingofbash's Words
bash, poleaxed, salacious, libertine, charlatan, aplomb, fortuitous, finagle, apoplectic, debutante, carte blanche, aardvark and 472 more...
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danube, schadenfreude, macabre, wanderlust, epiphany, azure, zeitgeist, cerulean, ennui, rhine, abyss, mulch and 130 more...
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ulyssean
... as in "by James Joyce"
stately, plump, aloft, gurgling, untonsured, chrysostomos, jowl, parapet, jesuit, indigestion, scutter, noserag and 688 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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Physiological Terms
Terms used in physiology
contabescence, infix, instill, demulcent, pachystichous, pachyhaemous, adrenal, suprarenal, adrenocorticotropic, remedial, flaccid, phosphene and 136 more...
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nuclear linguist
spiral cosmic confluence
isotope, flaccid, flatulence, waxing, sham, poly, solicitous, keep
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Kaichi's Wordie Darlings, or I'm a Lo...
persnickety, discombobulated, braggadoccio, anthropomorphous, antelucan, confluxible, anomalous, poseur, gallivant, poppycock, falderal, gewgaw and 705 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...
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Beautiful Words For Unpleasant Things
Mainly medical....
diarrhoea, dysphoria, anhedonia, dysphasia, eviscerate, carcinoma, purulent, pungent, horror, furuncle, cirrhosis, borborygmus and 47 more...
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Ecological Terms
Ecological terms
friable, septic, putrefactive, putrefaction, putrid, putridity, putrescence, sepsis, flatulate, flatulence, eructation, folium and 2 more...
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Josh's Words
flatulence, defenestrate, anatidaephobia, corinthian, faux, awkward, spooky, wednesday, sierra, savannah, siena, saffron and 5 more...
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Grandiloquence
Big, 'fancy' synonyms for simple concepts. Often scientific or medical terms
sternutation, susurration, flatulence, eructation, ephelides, borborygmus, titubate, terpsichorean, tachyphagia, tachyphrasia, sudorous, stupration and 60 more...
Tweets
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hernesheir Research Joseph Pujol, "Le Petomane", le fartiste. Jan 30, 2010
bilby Please extinguish naked flames before listing this word. Oct 19, 2008
sakhalinskii My life in a word. Jul 29, 2008
uselessness That's the best daffynition I've ever heard! Mar 2, 2007
oroboros An emergency vehicle that picks up someone who has been run over by a steamroller. --Mensa word list winner 2006 Mar 2, 2007
brtom Dear Mr Editor, what is a good cure for flatulence?
Joyce, Ulysses, 7 Jan 1, 2007