The Collaborative International Dictionary
Flatulent \Flat"u*lent\, a. [L. flatus a blowing, flatus ventris windiness, flatulence, fr. flare to blow: cf. F. flatulent. See Blow.]
Affected with flatus[2] or gases generated in the alimentary canal; windy.
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Generating, or tending to generate, wind in the stomach.
Vegetables abound more with a["e]rial particles than animal substances, and therefore are more flatulent.
--Arbuthnot. Turgid with flatus; as, a flatulent tumor.
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Pretentious without substance or reality; puffy; empty; vain; as, a flatulent vanity.
He is too flatulent sometimes, and sometimes too dry.
--Dryden.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"affected by digestive gas," 1590s, from Middle French flatulent (16c.), from Modern Latin flatulentus, from Latin flatus "a blowing, breathing, snorting; a breaking wind," past participle of flare "to blow, puff," which is cognate with Old English blawan (see blow (v.1)).
Wiktionary
a. 1 Affected by gas in the intestine; likely to fart. 2 (context obsolete English) vain.
WordNet
Usage examples of "flatulent".
For the relief of flatulent stomach-ache, whether in children or in adults, from five to fifteen drops of the essence may be given on a lump of sugar, or mixed with two dessertspoonfuls of hot water.
And while the closeted, flatulent men showed no shame, at the urinals men acted nervous.
It is a local stimulant to the mucous membrane, especially to the alimentary tract, and therefore is a remedy of great value as a carminative in flatulent colic and a useful addition to laxative medicine.
It slid sudsing along on a tongue of slime, engulfing its slow, savoring way down its row, leaving behind black stumps where movement and struggle had been, and every so often, emitting from its anal pore a flatulent spew of fresh, bright gems.
It bubbles up from deep underground in messy billows and currents and stinking, flatulent explosions.
We agreed to go back to the backwater with you, but you didn’t say anything about being crammed in here with these flatulent flaunters for another few days.
After the graveside service things began to break up, and they milled around for a time, talking to people they hadn't seen since the last biker funeral, then peeled off in twos and threes, roaring past the two state trooper cars which had apparently been summoned just in case, no doubt by nervous residents of the town, unstrung by the bearded, burly, helmeted visions which made such a powerful and flatulent sound as they moved through the town slowly in columns of four.
Combined with the resin of Blue Cohosh, it is an excellent remedy for amenorrhoea, dismenorrhoea, afterbirth pains, suppression of lochia and for febrile conditions of the parturient period, and combined with extract of Leptandra or Podophyllum resin, it acts well on the bowels and liver, and if mixed with Dioscorea is excellent for bilious and flatulent colic.
Makaar weren't flatulent, preening extravagances made by a pretend leader, they were hunters.
The shire horse was becoming unfortunately flatulent in his old age.
Has any fellow, of the dime a dozen type, it might with some profit some dull evening quietly be hinted--has any usual sort of ornery josser, flatchested fortyish, faintly flatulent and given to ratiocination by syncopation in the elucidation of complications,of his greatest Fung Yang dynasdescendanced,only another the son of, in fact, ever looked sufficiently longly at a quite everydaylooking stamped addressed envelope?