flatulate

Etymology

Attested since the 19th century; either a back-formation from flatulence or borrowed from French flatuler, either way, see-ate (verb-forming suffix); ultimately from New Latin flātulentus, from flō (“to blow, breeze”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈflætjʊleɪt/, /ˈflæt͡ʃəleɪt/
Audio (Southern England): (file)

Verb

flatulate (third-person singular simple present flatulates, present participle flatulating, simple past and past participle flatulated)

To fart, to emit digestive gases from the anus, especially with accompanying sound and smell.
- 1985, James L. Framo, “Rationale and Techniques of Intensive Family Therapy,” in Intensive Family Therapy, Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy and James L. Framo eds. ,
  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”?
- 2001, David Kerans, Mind and Labor on the Farm in Black-Earth Russia‎:
  Horses defecate and flatulate on the move.
- 2003, Vamik D Volkan, The Third Reich in the Unconscious‎:
  While in the bathtub, he thought that he had to flatulate, but defecated instead. His mother had berated him mercilessly.
- 2019 November 19, Angela Watercutter, “With #Fartgate, Twitter Was a Gas Once Again”, in WIRED‎:
  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.
Synonym: see Thesaurus:flatulate

Coordinate term: queef

Derived terms

Translations

to flatulate

French: flatuler (fr)
German: flatulieren (de)
Ottoman Turkish: اوصورمق (osurmak), یللنمك (yellenmek)