Hypertext Webster Gateway: "flatulent"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Flatulent \Flat"u*lent\, a. [L. flatus a blowing, flatus ventris
windiness, flatulence, fr. flare to blow: cf. F. flatulent.
See {Blow}.]
1. Affected with flatus or gases generated in the alimentary
canal; windy.

2. Generating, or tending to generate, wind in the stomach.

Vegetables abound more with a["e]rial particles than
animal substances, and therefore are more flatulent.
--Arbuthnot.

3. Turgid with flatus; as, a flatulent tumor. --Quincy.

4. Pretentious without substance or reality; puffy; empty;
vain; as, a flatulent vanity.

He is too flatulent sometimes, and sometimes too
dry. --Dryden.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

flatulent
adj 1: generating excessive gas in the alimentary canal
2: suffering from excessive gas in the alimentary canal [syn: {colicky},
{gassy}]

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