fart

Meaning

Verb

1. (informal) To emit digestive gases from the anus; to flatulate.
2. (informal) 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.
3. To emit (fumes, gases, etc.).

Noun

1. (informal) An emission of digestive gases from the anus; a flatus.
2. (colloquial) An irritating person; a fool.
3. (colloquial) (usually as "old fart") An elderly person; especially one perceived to hold old-fashioned views.
4. One who is inflexibly meticulous.

Synonyms

break wind

wind

flatulence

pass gas

flatulate

breaking wind

flatus

farting

gas

air discharge from the anus

be gassy

fart silently

let rip

afe

blow ass

blow raspberries

break

crackle to life

burst

fall apart

flatulent

odor

smash

smell

👃

smoke pipe

poot

Pronounced as (IPA)

/fɑːt/

Etymology

From Middle English ferten, farten, from Old English feortan, from Proto-Germanic *fertaną, from Proto-Indo-European *perd-.
The noun is from Middle English fert, fart, from the verb.