† flatuousadj.
Obsolete.
1. Of a windy nature; full of wind or gas; = flatulent adj. 1.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > digestive disorders > [adjective] > affected with flatulence
windyc1000
ventuousa1398
flatuous1580
ventositous1616
ventosous1639
flatulent1732
1580 G. Harvey in E. Spenser & G. Harvey Three Proper & Wittie Lett. 12 Such feverous..and flatuous spirits as lurke within.
1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 704 Like as in our bodies there..arise certeine flatuous tumors.
1653 J. Gauden Hieraspistes 44 Their flatuous and unrefined Wines.
1710 True Acct. Last Distemper T. Whigg ii. 45 Whose Blood being flatuous and foul.
2.
a. Resulting from inflation.
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the world > matter > gas > air > [adjective] > under pressure > inflated or filled with compressed air
blownc1425
puffed1536
upblown1590
wind-blown1593
huff-pufft1608
flatuous1658
inflated1681
pneumatic1862
out-blowed-
the world > space > extension in space > expansion or enlargement > [adjective] > distending > inflating > inflated
inflate?1504
puffed1536
full-blown1576
upblown1590
wind-blown1593
huff-pufft1608
bladdered1633
flatuous1658
inflated1681
out-blowed-
1658 Sir T. Browne Garden of Cyrus iii, in Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall 134 Seeds, wherein at first may be discerned a flatuous distension of the husk.
b. Resembling wind in its action.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [adjective] > resembling wind in action
windyc1000
flatuous1662
1662 J. Chandler tr. J. B. van Helmont Oriatrike 78 It hath well pleased the Eternall, to place in the Stars, a flatuous, violent, motive force.
3. = flatulent adj. 3.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > digestive disorders > [adjective] > affected with flatulence > causing flatulence
windy1398
flative1599
flatulent1599
flatuous1601
gassy1918
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 170 If a man eat them [mulberries] alone..they swell in the stomack and be very flatuous.
1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Rom. Quest. (1892) 64 So it is that pulse be flateous and windy.
1676 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 11 634 They use no correctives to take away the flatuous, nauseous, and other bad qualities of them.
4. = flatulent adj. 4.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > digestive disorders > [adjective] > affected with flatulence > caused by flatulence
flatuous1600
flatulent1655
1600 W. Vaughan Nat. & Artific. Direct. Health (1633) 55 The morphew, or else some flatuous windy humour.
1694 W. Westmacott Θεολοβοτονολογια 20 The Plaster seldom fails in cold flatuous pains.
1710 T. Fuller Pharmacopœia Extemporanea 118 It [sc. the Electuary] is a notable experimented thing against..flatuous Stitches in the Side.
5. figurative. = flatulent adj. 5.
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the mind > emotion > pride > pretension to superiority > [adjective]
taunt?a1534
cocket1537
fastuous?1591
cobbing1599
whalebone1602
airy1606
fastigious1625
flatuous1630
high and mighty1633
vapouring1647
flatulent1658
hoity-toity1690
jackanapish1696
superior1711
penseful1788
uppish1789
pensy1790
stuck-up1812
glorified1821
toploftical1823
pretentious1832
sophomoric1837
highty-tighty1847
snippy1848
jumped-up1852
set-up1856
toplofty1859
cock-aloft1861
high-tone1864
high-toned1866
pretensivea1868
fancy-pants1870
hunched1870
snotty1870
head-in-air1880
uppity1880
jackanapsian1881
airified1882
sidey1898
posh1914
upstage1918
snooty1919
high-hatted1924
hincty1924
snot-nosed1941
posho1989
1630 T. May Contin. Lucan Contn. i. 353 But swift as thoughts can flie..in a moment goe The flatuous dreames through th' aire.
a1652 A. Wilson Hist. Great Brit. (1653) Concl., 291 Willing to be less than the least in the Times flatuous opinion.
1720 J. Johnson Coll. Eccl. Laws Ch. Eng. Advt. to Reader §7 They were drawn in a very flatuous Style, and contain but very little Sense in many Lines.
Derivatives
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > digestive disorders > [noun] > flatulence
windc1000
ventosity1398
ventosities1422
ventosenessa1425
windinessc1450
blastinga1475
flatulentness1563
flatuosity1600
flatuousness1600
pursiness1607
flatea1644
sufflature1660
flatulency1661
flatus1669
flatulence1858
gaseosity1968
1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique vi. xxii. 797 Such [wines]..ingender a masse of many crudities, and much flatuousnes.
1620 T. Venner Via Recta vii. 113 In Feuers (by reason of their heat and flateousnes) they are not to be admitted.
1647 N. Ward Simple Cobler Aggawam 77 J can impute it to nothing, but to the flatuousnesse of our diet.
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