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Flatulent adj.

Affected with flatus (2) or gases generated in the alimentary canal; windy.

Generating, or tending to generate, wind in the stomach. "Vegetables abound more with aerial particles than animal substances, and therefore are more flatulent."

Turgid with flatus; as, a flatulent tumor.

Pretentious without substance or reality; puffy; empty; vain; as, a flatulent vanity. "He is too flatulent sometimes, and sometimes too dry."

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Etymology of 'Flatulent'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Flatulent" Quotes from Famous Books

... and the Hanoverians, says Joe, haven't we had enough of those sausageeating bastards on the throne from George the elector down to the German lad and the flatulent old ...

— Ulysses • James Joyce

... hand—evidently the forlorn hand of Marie: "Last letter received from my husband." It purports to have been written "On board the steamship Herman Livingston, Savannah, Jan. 5, 1878." It begins, in a modified form, thus: "My darling wife," and takes a flatulent turn almost immediately, "we had a fair wind all the way; a few passengers, and only one lady, which was Lydia. She was very pleasant and no trouble, as she was not sea-sick, and sat in the pilot-house most of the time. I am feeling very well now. . ...

— Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations • William Howe

... something of an orator. FLYNN will show House how all these qualities may be combined in one man. Does it by the tiresome twenty minutes, the lamentable half-hour; popping up on every question with comically judicial air; talking on with fatal feeble flatulent fluency, whilst GILL sits nursing his hat awaiting ...

— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, March 26, 1892 • Various

Words linked to "Flatulent" : gassy, colicky, flatulence, indigestible