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Etymology edit

From fart +‎ -some.

Adjective edit

fartsome (comparative more fartsome, superlative most fartsome)

  1. Characterised or marked by farting; like a fart (all senses)
    • 2008, Margo Lanagan, Tender Morsels:
      Then I was gone from that fartsome, crumpled, ale-smelly room, before I undignified myself by landing a blow upon a poor ignorant beast.
    • 2009, Gary Indiana, The Shanghai Gesture, page 205:
      [] the fartsome abortionist, Philidor Wellbutrin, seemed doubled in another well-tailored figure wearing a monocle, observing the play, []
    • 2018, Ben Elton, Upstart Crow:
      A good lesson for all us fartsome try-hards, Kate.

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