flatulateとは

意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

flatulate (三人称単数 現在形 flatulates, 現在分詞 flatulating, 過去形および過去分詞形 flatulated)

1. 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. [1],

     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^[2]:

     Horses defecate and flatulate on the move.

   • 2003, Vamik D Volkan, The Third Reich in the Unconscious‎^[3]:

     While in the bathtub, he thought that he had to flatulate, but defecated instead. His mother had berated him mercilessly.

使用する際の注意点

Garner's Modern English Usage (4th ed) has an entry for flatulate, discussing the attestation history and lexicographic coverage of this verb and some of its synonyms. As with the other main bodily functions (such as urination, defecation, かつ vomiting), register governs the choice of synonym in a given context; flatulate serves formal registers well (such as in medical publications), whereas fart, although it is easily English's dominant synonym of the semantic field for this concept, is usually considered a casualism suited only to informal registers. Thus flatulate is to fart as urinate is to pee and as defecate is to shit.

同意語

• See fart § 同意語
• See also Thesaurus:flatulate

等位語

• queef

派生語

• flatulation