flatus

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  1. noun Gas generated in or expelled from the digestive tract, especially the stomach or intestines.

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  • The chalikos had their own distinctive smell, odd and sulfurous, like a flatus of turnips. —  The Many-Coloured Land -- Julian May
  • Apple is a consumer electronics company now and if consumers want flatus, they'll get flatus. —  Apple Matters
  • It's a spitter of soot, a puker of sulfur, a farter of greenhouse flatus. —  Dallas Observer | Complete Issue
  • He IS an absolute, empty-suit, flatus filled bore. —  Latest Articles
  • Limiting carbonated beverages and chewing gum may be helpful in preventing flatus or belching in your child. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
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crappiethon · government cheese · cheese · unscattered, sausage-gravied, peppered, and smothered · smothered, foundered, and jumpstarted · smothered, lipsticked, and eye-patched · refried, smothered, jumpstarted, saddled, and sausage-gravied · international bacon day · cabbage · scotch egg · hummus

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  1. Latin flātus, wind, fart, from flāre, to blow; see bhlē- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin flatus, a blowing, breathing, a breath, from flare, blow, breathe, = English blow.
 

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