Fart
noun, verb, slang ·Common ·Middle school level
Definitions
- 1 An emission of digestive gases from the anus; a flatus. informal
"I think I heard a fart. Was it you, Nigel?"
- 2 A trans-exclusionary radical feminist (TERF). derogatory
"Reminder that FARTs don't actually believe trans women are men. They don't speak to people they think are men the way they do to trans women."
- 3 a reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus wordnet
- 4 An irritating person; a fool. derogatory
- 5 One who is inflexibly meticulous. Maine
- 1 To emit digestive gases from the anus; to flatulate. informal, intransitive
"I fart with twenty ladies by; / They call me beast; and what care I?"
- 2 expel intestinal gases through the anus wordnet
- 3 To emit (fumes, gases, etc.). figuratively, informal, transitive
"Above his head the funnel farted black soot into the sky."
Example
More examples"A fart is the tortured scream of a trapped turd."
Etymology
From Middle English ferten, farten, from Old English *feortan, from Proto-West Germanic *fertan, from Proto-Germanic *fertaną, from Proto-Indo-European *perd-. The noun is from Middle English fert, fart, from the verb.
Acronym of feminism-appropriating reactionary transphobe deliberately constructed to be homonymous with fart.
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