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Fart

noun

A reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus. Synonyms: breaking wind, farting, flatus, wind.

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"Fart" Quotes from Famous Books

... here's a scythe, and there's a dart— They hae pierc'd mony a gallant heart; But Doctor Hornbook, wi' his art And cursed skill, Has made them baith no worth a fart; Damn'd haet ...

— Robert Burns - How To Know Him • William Allan Neilson

... Kellerman, in his first feeling of dissatisfaction at the dry congratulation he had received, said to the First Consul, "I have just placed the crown on your head!" I did not hear this, and I cannot vouch for the truth of its having been said. I could only have ascertained that fart through Bonaparte, and of course I could not, with propriety, remind him of a thing which must have been very offensive to him. However, whether true or not, the observation was circulated about, ...

— Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Complete • Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne

... their quarters; yet would one or other of the town presently give Sir John Gell of Derby notice, so that ere next morning most of his Majesty's troops were seized in their lodgings, which moved the Lord of Loughborough merrily to say, there was not a fart let in Ashby, but it ...

— William Lilly's History of His Life and Times - From the Year 1602 to 1681 • William Lilly

Words linked to "Fart" : inborn reflex, act involuntarily, physiological reaction, innate reflex, reflex response, reflex, break wind, instinctive reflex, breaking wind, act reflexively, farting, unconditioned reflex, reflex action, wind