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fart

/fɑːt//fɑɹt/

fart verb: to emit digestive gases from the anus; to flatulate.

Verb

fart (third-person singular simple present farts, present participle farting, simple past and past participle farted)

  1. (informal, intransitive) To emit digestive gases from the anus; to flatulate.
    • I fart with twenty ladies by; / They call me beast; and what care I?1728, Jonathan Swift, A Dialogue between Mad Mullinix and Timothy
  2. (figuratively, informal, transitive) To emit (fumes, gases, etc.).
    • Above his head the funnel farted black soot into the sky.1988, Peter Carey, chapter 95, in Oscar and Lucinda, London: Faber and Faber, published 1989, page 457
    • We’ve been stuck behind a Ford Escort farting black smoke for ten minutes.2014, Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings, New York: Riverhead Books, page 139

Noun (1)

fart (plural farts)

  1. (informal) An emission of digestive gases from the anus; a flatus.
    • I think I heard a fart. Was it you, Nigella?
    • Silent farts are often the smelliest.
    Synonyms:
    flatus
  2. (derogatory) An irritating person; a fool.
  3. (Maine) One who is inflexibly meticulous.

Noun (2) capitalized: FART

FART (plural FARTs)

  1. (derogatory) A trans-exclusionary radical feminist (TERF).
    • Reminder that FARTs don't actually believe trans women are men. They don't speak to people they think are men the way they do to trans women.2018 September 16, Panic Dixie Scream Girl (@ChaKatKimber), Twitter
    • “Blaming trans people for everything” is to FARTs as Three Blind Mice is to the bloody recorder.2019 May 16, Dan (@DanDanYamagata), Twitter

fart meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

fart in Hindi

to emit flatulent gases
पादना pādnā, हवा छोड़ना havā choṛnā, पाद मारना pād mārnā
an emission of flatulent gases
पाद pād

fart in Tamil

to emit flatulent gases
வாய்வு பறிதல் vāyvu paṟital, குசு விடு kucu viṭu
an emission of flatulent gases
குசு kucu, வாய்வு vāyvu, வேற்றுக்காற்று vēṟṟukkāṟṟu

fart in Marathi

to emit flatulent gases
पादणे pādṇe

fart in Urdu

to emit flatulent gases
پاد مارنا pād mārnā, ہوا چھوڑنا havā ćho.rnā, پادنا pādnā
an emission of flatulent gases
پاد pād, ٹهسکی ṭhaskī
More languagesFewer languages
fart in Bengali
পাদা pada
fart in Telugu
పిత్తు pittu, పిత్తి pitti
fart in Malayalam
വളി vaḷi, അധോവായു adhōvāyu
fart in Punjabi
ਪੱਦ padda, ਪੱਦਣਾ paddăṇā
fart in Gujarati
પાદવું pādvũ
fart in Sanskrit
पर्दते pardate
fart in Assamese
পাদ pad
fart in Nepali
पाद्नु pādnu, पाद pād
fart in Tagalog
utot, umutot
fart in Arabic
حَبَقَ ḥabaqa, ضَرَطَ ḍaraṭa, فَسَا fasā, حَبْقَة ḥabqa
fart in Malay
kentut
fart in Indonesian
kentut
fart in Persian
گوزیدن guzidan, چسیدن čosidan, گوز دادن guz dâdan, گوز guz
fart in Thai
ตด dtòt, ผายลม pǎai-lom
fart in Vietnamese
địt, chùi gháu, đánh rắm, đánh địt
fart in Myanmar
လေလည် lelany, လေစုန် lecun, အီးပေါက် i:pauk
Dhivehi
ފޮޑި foḍi

Examples of fart in a sentence

  • My dad used to burp to hide the fact he was farting.
  • He let rip a fart that emptied the elevator at the next floor.
  • After a bad day of duck hunting nothing goes down better than a good duck fart.

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Synonyms of fart

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Forms of fart

Verb
third-person singular presentfarts
present participlefarting
past participlefarted
pastfarted
Noun
pluralfarts
pluralFARTs

Plural of fart: farts

Origin of fart

From Middle English ferten, farten, from Old English *feortan, from Proto-West Germanic *fertan, from Proto-Germanic *fertaną, from Proto-Indo-European *perd-. The noun is from Middle English fert, fart, from the verb.

Acronym of feminism-appropriating reactionary transphobe deliberately constructed to be homonymous with fart.

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Questions about fart

What does fart mean?
Fart means to emit digestive gases from the anus; to flatulate.
What is fart in Hindi?
Fart in Hindi is पादना (pādnā), हवा छोड़ना (havā choṛnā), पाद मारना (pād mārnā). See Fart meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is fart?
Fart can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce fart?
Fart is pronounced /fɑːt/ (UK).
What is the past tense of fart?
The past tense of fart is farted.

Words near fart in the dictionary

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  3. farspoken
  4. farstretched
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  8. fart 808s
  9. fart about
  10. fart around
  11. fart box

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fart (page history and authors); FART (page history and authors); ਪੱਦ (Punjabi) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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