farty

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English

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Etymology

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From fart +‎ -y.

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Adjective

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farty (comparative fartier, superlative fartiest)

  1. (informal) Resembling or characteristic of a fart; flatulent.
    • 2005, Craig Sherborne, Hoi Polloi, page 66:
      He slaps me playfully on the knee just as Heels opens the flat's door letting in a farty smell of boiling vegetables from the rest of the building.
  2. (informal) Causing flatulence.
    Synonym: gassy
    Avoid farty foods if you are working in a confined space.
  3. (informal) Having flatulence.
  4. (chiefly British, informal) Small and insignificant; petty.
    • 2008, Milly Johnson, The Birds and the Bees:
      If the bloody basic bill wasn't bad enough, he discovered all the ironing services she had charged to the room, and she had just wasted another fifteen quid on coffee and farty little chocolate truffles []

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