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Answer for the clue "Needing a pat on the back? ", 5 letters:
gassy

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Word definitions for gassy in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. resembling gas suffering from excessive gas in the alimentary canal [syn: colicky , flatulent ] [also: gassiest , gassier ]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1757, from gas + -y (2).

Usage examples of gassy.

His foot punched through into some dreadful sliminess and there was a gassy, putrid smell that he barely noticed.

They inspected it all and felt cautiously of the dehorner, its sharp cupped blood-encrusted ends, and they edged up to the smudge pot and held out their gloved hands to its gassy heat.

Patti--The lesson scene and what singers have done with it--Grisi, Alboni, Catalani, Bosio, Gassier, Patti, Sembrich, Melba, and Viardot--An echo of Haydn.

Always used to show up at the parties with some gassy thing, a gopher snake or a white mouse or some gassy thing like that in his pocket?

Gassy came forward to help her with the hooks and eyes of her skirt.

And it wasn't only the fumes from the Engines, but vile sewer-seepings as well, and gassy leakings from collapsible India-rubber bags, that lit the carriage-jets in their wire-netted glass shades.

Gassy Lok had dirt smeared on her face, her hair was plastered to the sides of her head in two wet sheets, and she was wearing an ancient oilskin cape that had come with the farm together with a milk churn and two rotting plows.

It had a green and gassy smell and the flesh had swelled tight against his pants, stretching the khaki fabric until it resembled a sausage casing.

It was rotting before his very eyes and the smell of it was what he had smelled in Christine before, what Leigh had smelled, only it was worse now, it was the high, gassy, gagging smell of high-speed decay, the smell of his own death, and Arnie began to whine as Little Richard came on the radio singing 'Tutti Frutti,' and now the thing's hair was failing out in gossamer white drifts and its collarbones poked through the shiny, stretched skin above the T-shirt's sagging round collar, they poked through like grotesque white pencils.