Meanings
adjectiveflatuous (comparative more flatuous, superlative most flatuous)
comparative more flatuous · superlative most flatuous
- obsoletewindy; full of wind
rhubarb is a medicine which the stomach in a small quantity doth digest and overcome, being not flatuous nor lothsome, and so sendeth it to the mesentery veins ; and so being opening , it helpeth down urine
1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC - obsoletegenerating flatulence; flatulent
Origin
Compare French flatueux.
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APA
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MLA
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Chicago
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