fart
/fɑɹt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.59 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One who is inflexibly meticulous.
Example Sentences
- "I fart with twenty ladies by; / They call me beast; and what care I?"
- "Above his head the funnel farted black soot into the sky."
- "We’ve been stuck behind a Ford Escort farting black smoke for ten minutes."
- "I think I heard a fart. Was it you, Nigella?"
- "Silent farts are often the smelliest."
- "Metrocles somewhat indiscreetly, as he was disputing in his Schole, in presence of his auditory, let a fart, for shame whereof he afterwards kept his house and could not be drawen abroad[…]."
Etymology
From Middle English ferten, farten, from Old English *feortan, from Proto-West Germanic *fertan, from Proto-Germanic *fertaną, from Proto-Indo-European *perd-. The noun is from Middle English fert, fart, from the verb.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: ferten, *feortan, *fertan, *fertaną, *perd-, fert
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /fɑɹt/
- British English: /fɑːt/