break wind

Etymology

First attested 1552. From break + wind (“flatulence”). Compare Saterland Frisian wiendje (“to break wind”).

Pronunciation

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Verb

break wind (third-person singular simple present breaks wind, present participle breaking wind, simple past broke wind, past participle broken wind)

(idiomatic, euphemistic) To expel gases generated during digestion, especially through the anus; to fart.
I broke wind and excused myself afterwards.

Synonyms

(expel gases through the anus): let off, let one rip, break ass, pass gas, pass wind, cut the cheese, fart, flatulate, toot, guff
See also Thesaurus:flatulate

Related terms

break wind backwards
break wind upwards

Translations

to flatulate

Arabic: ضَرَطَ (ḍaraṭa)
Bulgarian: пу́скам га́зове (púskam gázove)
Cheyenne: -pánestse
Chinese:
Mandarin: 放屁 (zh) (fàngpì)
Czech: pouštět větry
Dutch: een wind laten, een scheet laten
Esperanto: furzi
Finnish: pierrä (fi)
French: lâcher (fr), en lâcher un (to let one loose), (informal) péter (fr), (colloquial) lâcher une perle (fr), (colloquial) loufer (fr)
German: furzen (de)
Greek: κλάνω (el) (kláno)
Ancient: πέρδομαι (pérdomai), ἀποπέρδομαι (apopérdomai), βδέω (bdéō)
Hungarian: szellent (hu)
Ido: flatuar (io)
Indonesian: buang angin, buang gas
Italian: mollarne una
Japanese: おならをする (おならをする, onara o suru), 屁をひる (へをひる, he o hiru)
Korean: 방귀뀌다 (banggwikkwida)
Latin: ventum ēmittō, pēdō
Macedonian: пу́ва (púva)
Maori: keho, hengo, hemo, hemo te tou, patero (loudly), pāterotero (repeatedly and loudly), tē, pīhau (quietly), pīhauhau (repeatedly and quietly)
Middle Low German: pupen
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: унгах (mn) (ungax)

Mongolian: ᠤᠩᠭᠤᠬᠤ (ungɣuqu)
Ottoman Turkish: اوصورمق (osurmak), یللنمك (yellenmek)
Polish: puszczać gazy impf, puścić gazy pf, psuć powietrze impf, zepsuć powietrze pf (polute the air)
Portuguese: soltar gases
Russian: пу́кать (ru) impf (púkatʹ), пу́кнуть (ru) pf (púknutʹ), испуска́ть га́зы impf (ispuskátʹ gázy), испусти́ть га́зы pf (ispustítʹ gázy)
Sanskrit: पर्दते (sa) (pardate)
Sicilian: piditari (scn), lassàrisi jiri
Spanish: peer (es), peerse (es)
Turkish: yellenmek (tr)
Welsh: taro rhech

Anagrams

wind break, wind-break, windbreak

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