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flatuous

flatuous adjective: windy; full of wind.

Adjective

flatuous (comparative more flatuous, superlative most flatuous)

  1. (obsolete) windy; full of wind
    • rhubarb is a medicine which the stomach in a small quantity doth digest and overcome, being not flatuous nor lothsome, and so sendeth it to the mesentery veins ; and so being opening , it helpeth down urine1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted...
  2. (obsolete) generating flatulence; flatulent

Forms of flatuous

comparativemore flatuous
superlativemost flatuous

Origin of flatuous

Compare French flatueux.

Questions about flatuous

What does flatuous mean?
Flatuous means windy; full of wind.
What part of speech is flatuous?
Flatuous is an adjective.

Words near flatuous in the dictionary

  1. flatulist
  2. flatulists
  3. flatulogenic
  4. flatuosities
  5. flatuosity
  6. flatuous
  7. flatus
  8. flatuses
  9. flatware
  10. flatwares
  11. flatwash

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