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单词 petarade
释义

petaraden.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French petarade.
Etymology: < French petarade (1542 in Middle French (Rabelais) as petarrade ; now normally in sense ‘backfiring of a motor vehicle’) < Occitan petarrada , also petarada < petarrar to emit a series of farts (ultimately < pet pet n.1) + -ada -ade suffix. Compare Catalan petarrada (1564).The French word is recorded in Cotgrave:1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Petarrade, gunshot of farting.
Obsolete.
An act of breaking wind; a fart or series of farts.
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1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Petarrade,..a yerking out of a horse behind, commonly accompanied with farting.
1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. v. 54 In discharging of their Postern Petarades.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2020).
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