Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of, afflicted with, or caused by flatulence.
- adj. Inducing or generating flatulence.
- adj. Pompous; bloated.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Windy; affected with gases generated in the stomach or some other portion of the alimentary canal.
- Turgid with air; windy: as, a flatulent tumor.
- Generating or apt to generate wind in the stomach.
- Empty; vain; pretentious; without substance or reality; puffed up: as, flatulent vanity.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Affected with flatus{2} or gases generated in the alimentary canal; windy.
- adj. Generating, or tending to generate, wind in the stomach.
- adj. Turgid with flatus.
- adj. Pretentious without substance or reality; puffy; empty; vain.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. generating excessive gas in the alimentary canal
- adj. suffering from excessive gas in the alimentary canal
Etymologies
- French, from Latin flātus, fart; see flatus.
Examples
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“I'm liking the word "flatulent" in this context but am as ever open to new horizons.”
“It does almost everything wrong that can be done, with a kind of flatulent gusto that will make you want to murder Midway employees, screaming, Hah!”
“Of course, the word flatulent would be on the teachers’ list.”
“No more toilet humor: NSO contrabassoonist trades in 'flatulent' instrument for sweeter contraforte”
“Tonight, in a kind of conversation, a critic of a fawning local sports caster, once perfectly described as a flatulent lap sitting interview, Governor Palin insisted to Sean Hannity that she did not immediately accept the spot on the ticket, that she hesitated and put it to a family vote. the quote, "it was time of asking the girls to vote on it, anyway, and they voted unanimously yes.”
“Cairns, it is true, included some flatulent "Prejudices" essays in his anthology, but with explanations of their origin either from Mencken or from Cairns himself along with the dates of the essays 'original publication.”
“When Tessa crossed Olympic Boulevard, the cars seemed to roar and moan in anguish, their engines struggling, flatulent.”
“The animation consisted of Judge Jones represented as a puppet with his strings being held by various proponents of evolution; aside from being depicted as unusually flatulent, poor Judge Jones was also shown to be reading aloud from his court opinion in a high-pitched voice (Dembski's, it turned out, but sped up to make it sound sillier).”
“His lovely but perpetually flatulent wife, a beautiful bird in a gilded aviary, like so many grandmothers, preferred the rosy glow of a medicated existence, to life's harsh realities.”
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