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Flatulent

adjective

Generating excessive gas in the alimentary canal.

Suffering from excessive gas in the alimentary canal. Synonyms: colicky, gassy.

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"Flatulent" Quotes from Famous Books

... distillations, and I guessed that his playmate might indulge, at least privately, in a taste for similar libations. I spoke, therefore, of "cordial bitters,"—(a name not unfamiliar even to the most temperate Christians, in defence of flatulent stomachs,)—and at the same time producing my travelling canteen of Otard's best, applied it to the nostrils ...

— Captain Canot - or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver • Brantz Mayer

... St. Just! Happily Jack's scalene triangle, being more produced from air than from fire, does not give to his philanthropy the inflammatory character which distinguishes the benevolence of inquisitors and revolutionists. The philanthropy, therefore, takes a more flatulent and innocent form, and expends its strength in mounting paper balloons, out of which Jack pitches himself, with all the fellow-creatures he can coax into sailing with him. No doubt Uncle Jack's philanthropy ...

— The Caxtons, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Words linked to "Flatulent" : colicky, unhealthy, indigestible, flatulence, gassy, flatulency