farting

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈfɑːtɪŋ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfɑɹtɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tɪŋ

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

English fart

English -ing

English farting

From fart + -ing.

Verb

farting

1. present participle and gerund of fart

Etymology 2

From Middle English fartynge, fartyng, ferting, from Old English feorting (“farting”), equivalent to fart +‎ -ing.

Noun

farting (plural fartings)

1. The act of one who farts; a sound like a fart.
   • 1989, William H. MacLeish, The Gulf Stream:

     Noise grew everywhere — radios, monstrous tape decks, the fartings of untuned engines.

   • 2007, Roger Angell, Let Me Finish, page 44:

     Observing the pantings and fartings of our old Boston terrier Tunney one day, he proposed that the federal government should fund a plan like the Passamaquoddy Bay project that would put all this energy to some use.

Translations

The act of passing wind

• Bulgarian: пърдене n (pǎrdene)
• Māori: paterotanga

Anagrams

• ingraft, rafting