flatulent, a.
(ˈflætjʊlənt)
Also 7 flatilent.
[a. F. flatulent, ad. mod.L. flātulent-us, f. L. flāt-us a blowing, f. flāre to blow: see -ulent.]
† 1. Of a windy nature, full of air or wind. Of a tumour: Turgid with air. Obs.
| 1600 Surflet Countrie Farme vi. xxii. 773 The vnprofitable and excrementous humour consumed, and the flatulent or windie parts thereof discussed. 1704 F. Fuller Med. Gymn. (1705) 70 The Contents of the Stomach are much rarefi'd and flatulent. a 1723 Quincy Lex. Physico-Med. (1730) Flatulent Tumours are such as easily yield to the Pressure of the Finger, but readily return, by their elasticity, to a tumid State again. 1745 Brownrigg in Phil. Trans. LV. 238 Those spirits of fountains are flatulent and elastic. |
2. Liable to, or prolific in, windy blasts.
rare.
| 1671 R. Bohun Wind 65 The Spring and Autumn..are the most Flatulent Seasons of the yeere. 1840 Barham Ingol. Leg., Bagman's Dog, Those flatulent folks known in Classical story as Aquilo, Libs, Notus, Auster, and Boreas. |
3. Generating or apt to generate gas in the alimentary canal; causing wind.
| 1599 H. Buttes Dyets drie Dinner C ij b, Peaches..Being soft, moist, and flatulent, they engender humours. 1674–81 Blount Glossogr. s.v., Pease and Beans are flatulent meat. 1731 Arbuthnot Aliments vi. (1735) 221 Vegetables abound more with aerial Particles, than animal Substances, and therefore are more flatulent. 1837 M. Donovan Dom. Econ. II. 321 Eaten in quantity it [beet-root] often proves flatulent. |
4. a. Of a disease, etc.: Attended with or caused by the accumulation of gases in the alimentary canal.
b. Of persons: Troubled with flatulence: see
flatulence 2.
| 1655 Culpepper Riverius vii. i. 147 Whence comes a flatulent Asthma. 1732 Arbuthnot Rules of Diet 372 If they are not flatulent several have been cured by a Milk-Diet. 1844–57 G. Bird Urin. Deposits (ed. 5) 310 Being merely the subject of occasional attacks of indigestion, with flatulent eructations. 1847 Youatt Horse xiv. 300 Flatulent Colic. |
| absol. 1858 Copland Dict. Pract. Med. III. i. 550 The dyspeptic, the flatulent, and the sedentary. |
5. fig. Inflated or puffed-up, ‘windy’; empty, vain, pretentious.
| 1658 Osborn Adv. Son (1673) 237 Religion grows flatulent and Hypocritical. 1697 Dryden æneis Ded. e 4 How many of those flatulent Writers have I known. 1742 Young Nt. Th. vi. 239 Flatulent with fumes of self-applause. 1863 N. & Q. 3rd Ser. IV. 284 Much of the poetry is little more than very flatulent declamation. 1870 Swinburne Ess. & Stud. (1875) 261 A score or two of poems, each more feeble and more flatulent than the last. |
Hence
ˈflatulently adv., in a flatulent manner;
ˈflatulentness, the condition of being flatulent.
| 1563 T. Gale Antidot. ii. 39 It..healeth flatulentnes of Hypochondria, etc. 1727 Bailey (vol. II), Flatulentness, Windiness, Flatulency. 1864 Webster, Flatulently. |