fart
verb /fɑːt/
/fɑːrt/
[intransitive] (taboo, slang)Verb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they fart | /fɑːt/ /fɑːrt/ |
| he / she / it farts | /fɑːts/ /fɑːrts/ |
| past simple farted | /ˈfɑːtɪd/ /ˈfɑːrtɪd/ |
| past participle farted | /ˈfɑːtɪd/ /ˈfɑːrtɪd/ |
| -ing form farting | /ˈfɑːtɪŋ/ /ˈfɑːrtɪŋ/ |
- to let air from the bowels come out through the anus, especially when it happens loudly A more polite way of expressing this is ‘to break wind’.Word OriginOld English (recorded in the verbal noun feorting ‘farting’) of Germanic origin; related to German farzen, furzen.