fart
English
/fɑːt/, /fɑɹt/
verb
Definitions
- (informal) To emit digestive gases from the anus; to flatulate.
- (colloquial) 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.
- (figuratively) To emit (fumes, gases, etc.).
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English ferten inherited from Old English feortan inherited from Proto-Germanic *fertaną derived from Proto-Indo-European *perd- (fart) inherited from Middle English fert.
Origin
Middle English
fert
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- face English
- farter English
- fartette English
- fartface English
- fartful English
- farthead English
- farthole English
- fartknocker English
- fartless English
- fartlike English
- fartometer English
- fartsome English
- farty English
- head English
- hole English
- knocker English
- outfart English
- podex Latin
- пердеть Russian
- *perd- Proto-Indo-European
- *pérdetor Proto-Indo-European
- *fertaną Proto-Germanic
- feortan Old English
- पर्द Sanskrit
- पर्दते Sanskrit
- পর্দ, पर्द Sanskrit
- farter Middle English
- fert Middle English
- ferten Middle English
- frata Old Norse
- freta Old Norse
- *pьrděti Proto-Slavic
- पादना Hindi
- furzan Old High German
- pirdiens Latvian
- pirst Latvian
- vurz Middle High German
- vurzen Middle High German
- fuerzen Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- pjerdh Albanian
- פֿאָרץ Yiddish
- *ɸrikkā Proto-Celtic
- persti Lithuanian
- পাদা Bengali
- *perda Proto-Albanian
- *perˀstei Proto-Balto-Slavic