flatuous
English edit
Etymology edit
Adjective edit
flatuous (comparative more flatuous, superlative most flatuous)
- (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
- (obsolete) generating flatulence; flatulent
References edit
- “flatuous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.