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発音

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

動詞

fart (三人称単数 現在形 farts, 現在分詞 farting, 過去形および過去分詞形 farted)

1. (informal, impolite, intransitive) 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^[1]:

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

2. (informal, impolite, intransitive, usually as "fart around") 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.

   Synonyms: futz, fool around, fool about

3. (figuratively, transitive) To emit (fumes, gases, etc.).
   • 1988, Peter Carey, chapter 95, in Oscar and Lucinda‎^[2], 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^[3], New York: Riverhead Books, page 139:

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

使用する際の注意点

This term, although considered somewhat impolite, is not generally considered vulgar. It once was, and there still may be some that do consider it to be, so it is best avoided in polite discourse.

名詞

fart (複数形 farts)

a fart (sense 1)

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

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

   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 […].

3. (colloquial, impolite, derogatory) An irritating person; a fool.
4. (colloquial, impolite, derogatory, potentially offensive) (usually as "old fart") An elderly person; especially one perceived to hold old-fashioned views.
5. (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

• FRTA, RTFA, TRAF, frat, raft, traf