farter

English

Etymology

From Middle English farter, fartare, fertere, equivalent to fart +‎ -er (agent noun suffix), or, for a bed or sleeping bag, +‎ -er (patient suffix). Cognate with German Furzer (“farter”).

Noun

farter (plural farters)

1. Someone or something that farts.
2. (dialectal) One who ambles along slowly.

   The drive took forty minutes, stuck behind those farters from the backwoods.

3. (Australia, informal) A bed or sleeping bag

Synonyms

• cheese cutter

Translations

one who farts

• Catalan: petaner m, petanera f, petaire m or f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 放屁者 (fàngpìzhě)

• Finnish: pierijä (fi); piereskelijä (fi) (repeatedly or habitually), pieraisija (once)
• French: péteur (fr) m, péteuse (fr) f
• Galician: peideiro m, peideira f
• German: Furzer m, Furzerin f
• Greek: κλανιάρης (el) m (klaniáris), πριτσομπαλίτσας m (pritsompalítsas), πορδαλάς (el) m (pordalás)
• Irish: bromaire m
• Italian: scoreggione m, scoreggiona f
• Kazakh: осырақ (osyraq)
• Korean: 방귀쟁이 (banggwijaeng'i)
• Lithuanian: pirdžius m
• Portuguese: peidorreiro (pt) m, peidorreira f, peidão (pt) m, peidona f
• Russian: перду́н (ru) m (perdún), перду́нья (ru) f (perdúnʹja), перду́шка f (perdúška), бздун (ru) m (bzdun), бзду́нья (ru) f (bzdúnʹja), бзду́шка f (bzdúška)
• Ukrainian: перду́н m (perdún)
• Vietnamese: bôi mỡ

slow person

• Finnish: etana (fi)

See also

• fartee

Anagrams

• Frater, Rafter, frater, rafter

Danish

Noun

farter c

1. indefinite plural of fart

French

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Verb

farter

1. to wax skis
2. informal greeting, made popular by movie Brice de Nice

   Ça farte ? - how's it hanging

Conjugation

Conjugation of farter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	farter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	fartant /faʁ.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		farté /faʁ.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	farte /faʁt/	fartes /faʁt/	farte /faʁt/	fartons /faʁ.tɔ̃/	fartez /faʁ.te/	fartent /faʁt/
	imperfect	fartais /faʁ.tɛ/	fartais /faʁ.tɛ/	fartait /faʁ.tɛ/	fartions /faʁ.tjɔ̃/	fartiez /faʁ.tje/	fartaient /faʁ.tɛ/
	past historic2	fartai /faʁ.te/	fartas /faʁ.ta/	farta /faʁ.ta/	fartâmes /faʁ.tam/	fartâtes /faʁ.tat/	fartèrent /faʁ.tɛʁ/
	future	farterai /faʁ.tə.ʁe/	farteras /faʁ.tə.ʁa/	fartera /faʁ.tə.ʁa/	farterons /faʁ.tə.ʁɔ̃/	farterez /faʁ.tə.ʁe/	farteront /faʁ.tə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	farterais /faʁ.tə.ʁɛ/	farterais /faʁ.tə.ʁɛ/	farterait /faʁ.tə.ʁɛ/	farterions /faʁ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	farteriez /faʁ.tə.ʁje/	farteraient /faʁ.tə.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	farte /faʁt/	fartes /faʁt/	farte /faʁt/	fartions /faʁ.tjɔ̃/	fartiez /faʁ.tje/	fartent /faʁt/
	imperfect2	fartasse /faʁ.tas/	fartasses /faʁ.tas/	fartât /faʁ.ta/	fartassions /faʁ.ta.sjɔ̃/	fartassiez /faʁ.ta.sje/	fartassent /faʁ.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	farte /faʁt/	—	fartons /faʁ.tɔ̃/	fartez /faʁ.te/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

farter m

1. indefinite plural of fart

Swedish

Noun

farter

1. indefinite plural of fart