noun, verb ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   The act of one who farts; a sound like a fart.

   "Noise grew everywhere — radios, monstrous tape decks, the fartings of untuned engines."

2. 2
   a reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus wordnet

Verb

1. 1
   present participle and gerund of fart form-of, gerund, participle, present

Synonyms

All synonyms

breaking windfartfartflatuswind

Example

More examples

"Farting in an elevator is wrong on so many levels."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From fart + -ing.

Etymology 2

From Middle English fartynge, fartyng, ferting, from Old English feorting (“farting”), equivalent to fart + -ing.

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