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語源

From 中期英語 ferten, farten, from 古期英語 *feortan, from Proto-West Germanic *fertan, from Proto-Germanic *fertaną, from Proto-Indo-European *perd-.

The noun is from 中期英語 fert, fart, from the verb.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: färt, IPA: /fɑːt/
• (General American) enPR: färt, IPA: /fɑɹt/
• 韻: -ɑː(ɹ)t

動詞

fart (third-person singular simple present farts, present participle farting, simple past and past participle farted)

1. (intransitive, informal) To emit digestive gases from the anus; to flatulate.

   Synonyms: beef, blow off, break wind, cut one loose, cut the cheese, flatulate, toot, pass gas, pass wind; see also Thesaurus:flatulate

   • 1728, Jonathan Swift, A Dialogue between Mad Mullinix and Timothy‎:

     I fart with twenty ladies by; / They call me beast; and what care I?

2. (transitive, figuratively, informal) To emit (fumes, gases, etc.).
   • 1988, Peter Carey, chapter 95, in Oscar and Lucinda‎, London: Faber and Faber, published 1989, page 457:

     Above his head the funnel farted black soot into the sky.

   • 2014, Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings‎, New York: Riverhead Books, page 139:

     We’ve been stuck behind a Ford Escort farting black smoke for ten minutes.

名詞

fart (plural farts)

1. (informal) An emission of digestive gases from the anus; a flatus. [from 15th c.]

   I think I heard a fart. Was it you, Nigella?

   Silent farts are often the smelliest.

   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

     Metrocles somewhat indiscreetly, as he was disputing in his Schole, in presence of his auditory, let a fart, for shame whereof he afterwards kept his house and could not be drawen abroad […].

2. (derogatory) An irritating person; a fool.
3. (Maine) One who is inflexibly meticulous.

同意語

• (emission of gases): See Thesaurus:flatus

派生語

参考

アナグラム

• TRAF, RTFA, frat, raft, traf, FRTA, tarf