Crossword clues for flatus
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Flatus \Fla"tus\, n.; pl. E. Flatuses, L. Flatus. [L., fr. flare to blow.]
A breath; a puff of wind.
--Clarke.Gas generated in the stomach, intestine, or other cavities of the body.
--Quincy.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1660s, "wind in the bowels," from Latin flatus "a blowing," from flare "to blow" (see blow (v.1)).
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) Gas generated in the digestive tract. 2 (context countable English) expulsion of such gas through the anus. 3 (context obsolete English) morbid inflation or swelling. 4 (plural of flatus English)Category:English plurals
WordNet
n. a reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus [syn: fart, farting, wind, breaking wind]
Usage examples of "flatus".
Thus he was obliged to utter endless inanities: Honourable door, this flatus wishes to pass through, or Honourable toilet, this flatus wishes to sit upon you.
You are the most disgusting cloud of flatus ever to disgrace this university, he told them at the end of the inspection.
He submitted stoically even to extreme provocation until in the second week of torment a note was pinned on the board in the residence common room: all flatus will report to the university gymnasium at 4 pm on Saturday to try out for the boxing squad.
At least three hundred spectators were assembled, and the seats around the ring were all filled by the time that Manfred and his fellow flatus arrived at the gymnasium.
This flatus is light heavyweight, sir, and Roelf's eyes narrowed slightly.
This flatus has never boxed a match, sir, but this flatus has had some practice.
For the Bushmen a flourish of flatus was always a propitious sign of good health.
Xhia jumped high and deliberately broke flatus, with such force that the wind stirred the back flap of his loincloth.
And aeneon, de Aenea deo, qua in eo habitat, sive a quo elementis flatus fertur.
Nature is cruel and the most keenly felt emotion may suddenly be made absurd by some trifle like an untimely fit of coughing, a trumpeting of flatus (rectal or vaginal) brought on by unwonted excitement, the clanking of false teeth?
The chalikos had their own distinctive smell, odd and sulfurous, like a flatus of turnips.