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Flatulent adj.

Affected with flatus (2) or gases generated in the alimentary canal; windy.

Generating, or tending to generate, wind in the stomach. "Vegetables abound more with aerial particles than animal substances, and therefore are more flatulent."

Turgid with flatus; as, a flatulent tumor.

Pretentious without substance or reality; puffy; empty; vain; as, a flatulent vanity. "He is too flatulent sometimes, and sometimes too dry."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Flatulent" Quotes from Famous Books

... them raw, or in bread (as they do much about Limosin) is apt to swell the belly, though without any other inconvenience that I can learn, and yet some condemn them as dangerous for such as are subject to the gravel in the kidneys, and however cook'd and prepar'd, flatulent, offensive to the head and stomach, and those who are subject to the cholick. The best way to preserve them, is to keep them in earthen vessels in a cold place; some lay them in a smoke-loft, others in dry barly-straw, others in sand, &c. The leaves of the chesnut-tree make very wholsom mattresses ...

— Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) - Or A Discourse of Forest Trees • John Evelyn

... held his bronco to a Spanish trot. Somewhere in front of him, among the brown hill swells that rose and fell like waves of the sea, lay Los Robles and breakfast. One solitary silver dollar, too lonesome even to jingle, lay in his flatulent trouser pocket. After he and Four Bits had eaten, two quarters would take the place of the big cartwheel. Then would come dinner, a second transfer of capital, and his pocket would be empty as a cow's stomach after ...

— Steve Yeager • William MacLeod Raine

Words linked to "Flatulent" : flatulency, gassy, flatulence, unhealthy, indigestible, colicky