fart

Meanings

Verb

• To emit digestive gases from the anus; to flatulate.
• To waste time with idle and inconsequential tasks; to go about one's activities in a lackadaisical manner; to be lazy or over-relaxed in one's manner or bearing.
• To emit (fumes, gases, etc.).

Noun

• An emission of digestive gases from the anus; a flatus.
• An irritating person; a fool.
• (usually as "old fart") An elderly person; especially one perceived to hold old-fashioned views.

Related

Similar words

• en

Origin

• From Middle English ferten, farten, from Old English feortan, from Proto-Germanic *fertaną, from Proto-Indo-European *perd-.
• The noun is from Middle English fert, fart, from the verb.