Flatulate
verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 To fart, to emit digestive gases from the anus, especially with accompanying sound and smell.
"1985, James L. Framo, “Rationale and Techniques of Intensive Family Therapy,” in Intensive Family Therapy, Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy and James L. Framo eds. http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=kfmXSIJPvqEC&pg=PA206&lpg=PA206&sig=b3bCCRJV6GdT6XexcyD0xVyRv88, Where else but in his own castle, with his own family, can a person pick his nose, flatulate, lose his temper with impunity, whine, let the child in him emerge—in short, regress and “be himself”?"
Example
More examples"Every time cattle belch - and, to a smaller extent, flatulate - methane is expelled and enters the atmosphere, where it acts as a greenhouse gas."
Etymology
Attested since the 19th century; either a back-formation from flatulence or borrowed from French flatuler, either way, see-ate (verb-forming suffix); ultimately from New Latin flātulentus, from flō (“to blow, breeze”).
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