flatus

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

Learned borrowing from Latin flātus (“blowing, wind, fart”). First attested in the 1660s–1670s.

It is allowed, that senates and great councils are often troubled with redundant, ebullient, and other peccant humours; with many diseases of the head, and more of the heart; with strong convulsions, with grievous contractions of the nerves and sinews in both hands, but especially the right; with spleen, flatus, vertigos, and deliriums; with scrofulous tumours, full of fetid purulent matter; with sour frothy ructations: with canine appetites, and crudeness of digestion, besides many others, needless to mention. — Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, Jonathan Swift

fart, farting, wind, breaking wind

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