break wind

See also: break-wind and breakwind

English

Etymology

First attested 1552. From break + wind (“flatulence”).

Pronunciation

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Verb

break wind (third-person singular simple present breaks wind, present participle breaking wind, simple past broke wind, past participle broken wind)

1. (idiomatic, euphemistic) To expel gases generated during digestion, especially through the anus; to fart or flatulate.

   One of the kids on the school bus broke wind.

Synonyms

• (expel gases through the anus): break ass, pass gas, pass wind, cut the cheese, fart, flatulate, toot, guff
• See also Thesaurus:flatulate

Related terms

• break wind backwards
• break wind upwards

Translations

to fart

• Bulgarian: пу́скам га́зове (púskam gázove)
• Cheyenne: -pánestse
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 放屁 (zh) (fàngpì)

• Czech: pouštět větry
• Dutch: een wind laten, een scheet laten
• Finnish: pierrä (fi)
• French: lâcher (fr), en lâcher un (to let one loose), (informal) péter (fr), (colloquial) lâcher une perle (fr), (colloquial) loufer (fr)
• German: furzen (de)
• Greek: κλάνω (el) (kláno)

  Ancient: πέρδομαι (pérdomai), ἀποπέρδομαι (apopérdomai), βδέω (bdéō)

• Hungarian: szellent (hu)
• Ido: flatuar (io)

• Italian: mollarne una
• Japanese: おならをする (ja) (onara o suru)
• Korean: 방귀뀌다 (banggwikkwida)
• Latin: ventum ēmittō, pēdō
• Macedonian: пу́ва (púva)
• Maori: keho, hengo, hemo, hemo te tou, patero (loudly), pāterotero (repeatedly and loudly), tē, pīhau (quietly), pīhauhau (repeatedly and quietly)
• Middle Low German: pupen
• Mongolian: унгах (mn) (ungakh)
• Polish: puszczać gazy impf, puścić gazy pf, psuć powietrze impf, zepsuć powietrze pf (polute the air)
• Portuguese: soltar gases
• Russian: пу́кать (ru) impf (púkatʹ), пу́кнуть (ru) pf (púknutʹ), испуска́ть га́зы impf (ispuskátʹ gázy), испусти́ть га́зы pf (ispustítʹ gázy)
• Sanskrit: पर्दते (sa) (pardate)
• Spanish: peer (es), peerse (es)
• Turkish: yellenmek (tr)

See also

• burp

Anagrams

• wind break, wind-break, windbreak