Flatulence

Noun

 * 1) The state of having gas, often malodorous, trapped (and often released, frequently with noise) in the digestive system of a human and some other animals; wind; and when released, a flatus.

Related terms
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Thesaurus
Barnumism, aeriness, affectation, bedizenment, big talk, bloat, bloatedness, bloating, blowing up, convolution, diastole, dilatation, dilation, distension, dropsy, edema, ethereality, fart, flashiness, flatulency, flatuosity, flatus, fluidity, fulsomeness, garishness, gas, gaseity, gaseous state, gaseousness, gassiness, gaudiness, grandiloquence, grandioseness, grandiosity, high-flown diction, inflatedness, inflation, intumescence, lexiphanicism, loftiness, luridness, magniloquence, mere rhetoric, meretriciousness, meteorism, orotundity, ostentation, ostentatious complexity, platitudinous ponderosity, polysyllabic profundity, pomposity, pompous prolixity, pompousness, pontification, pretension, pretentiousness, prose run mad, puff, puffiness, puffing, rhetoric, rhetoricalness, sensationalism, sententiousness, showiness, stiltedness, stretching, swell, swellage, swelling, swelling utterance, swollen phrase, swollenness, tall talk, tortuosity, tortuousness, tumefaction, tumescence, tumidity, tumidness, turgescence, turgidity, turgidness, tympanism, tympany, vapor pressure, vaporiness, vaporousness, wind, windiness

Etymology
flatulent + -ence

Pronunciation

 * , {{SAMPA|/"fl{tS@l@n(t)s/}}

Translations

 * Arabic: نفخ, نفخة
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 脹氣,  胀气
 * Czech:
 * Danish: fjært (old-fashioned); vind ; fis
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: μετεωρισμός
 * Japanese:, 鼓腸


 * Korean:
 * Old English:
 * Old Irish: ,
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Russian: метеоризм, скопление газов,  флатуленция
 * Scottish Gaelic: gaoth, bramasag
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: