flatuous

English

Etymology

Compare French flatueux.

Adjective

flatuous (comparative more flatuous, superlative most flatuous)

1. (obsolete) windy; full of wind
   • 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:

     rhubarb is a medicine which the stomach in a small quantity doth digest and overcome, being not flatuous nor lothsome, and so sendeth it to the mesentery veins ; and so being opening , it helpeth down urine

2. (obsolete) generating flatulence; flatulent

References

• “flatuous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.