flatulate

present singular third person flatulates · participle present flatulating · participle past flatulated · past flatulated

1. To fart, to emit digestive gases from the anus, especially with accompanying sound and smell.

   Coordinate term: queef

   4 more examples

   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”?

   Horses defecate and flatulate on the move.

   2001, David Kerans, Mind and Labor on the Farm in Black-Earth Russia

   While in the bathtub, he thought that he had to flatulate, but defecated instead. His mother had berated him mercilessly.

   2003, Vamik D Volkan, The Third Reich in the Unconscious

   This, reader, is where the true meaning of #Fartgate came alive. Arguing over who flatulated on MSNBC—or whether anyone did at all—isn’t the point. The point is that Twitter used to be about goofing off and making each other laugh.

   2019 November 19, Angela Watercutter, “With #Fartgate, Twitter Was a Gas Once Again”, in WIRED

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:flatulate, badger, blow off, break ass, break wind, bust ass, crepitate, curmur