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Etymology edit

Compare French flatueux.

Adjective edit

flatuous (comparative more flatuous, superlative most flatuous)

  1. (obsolete) windy; full of wind
    • 1631, Francis [Bacon], “(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. [], 3rd edition, 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

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