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farting

/ˈfɑːtɪŋ/US/ˈfɑɹtɪŋ/

farting is the present participle and gerund of fart.

Meaning of fart

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

See all 6 meanings of fart

Noun

farting (plural fartings)

  1. The act of one who farts; a sound like a fart.
    • Noise grew everywhere — radios, monstrous tape decks, the fartings of untuned engines.1989, William H. MacLeish, The Gulf Stream
    • Observing the pantings and fartings of our old Boston terrier Tunney one day, he proposed that the federal government should fund a plan like the Passamaquoddy Bay project that would put all this energy to some use.2007, Roger Angell, Let Me Finish, page 44

Forms of farting

pluralfartings

Origin of farting

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

From Middle English fartynge, fartyng, ferting, from Old English feorting (“farting”), equivalent to fart + -ing.

Phrases with farting

Words that rhyme with farting

Questions about farting

What does farting mean?
Farting means the act of one who farts; a sound like a fart.
What is farting the present participle and gerund of?
Farting is the present participle and gerund of fart.
What part of speech is farting?
Farting is a noun.
How do you pronounce farting?
Farting is pronounced /ˈfɑːtɪŋ/ (UK).
What is the plural of farting?
The plural of farting is fartings.

Words near farting in the dictionary

  1. fartier
  2. fartiest
  3. fartily
  4. fartin'
  5. fartiness
  6. farting
  7. farting about
  8. farting around
  9. farting off
  10. farting out
  11. fartingly

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