dictionary definitions for "flatulent"


From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:

  flatulent
      adj 1: generating excessive gas in the alimentary canal
      2: suffering from excessive gas in the alimentary canal [syn:
         colicky, gassy]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Flatulent \Flat"u*lent\, a. [L. flatus a blowing, flatus ventris
     windiness, flatulence, fr. flare to blow: cf. F. flatulent.
     See Blow.]
     1. Affected with flatus[2] or gases generated in the
        alimentary canal; windy.
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     2. Generating, or tending to generate, wind in the stomach.
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              Vegetables abound more with a["e]rial particles than
              animal substances, and therefore are more flatulent.
                                                    --Arbuthnot.
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     3. Turgid with flatus; as, a flatulent tumor. --Quincy.
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     4. Pretentious without substance or reality; puffy; empty;
        vain; as, a flatulent vanity.
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              He is too flatulent sometimes, and sometimes too
              dry.                                  --Dryden.
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