FLATULENT

a.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Affected with flatus or gases generated in the alimentary canal; windy.

2.
a.

Generating, or tending to generate, wind in the stomach. Vegetables abound more with aërial particles than animal substances, and therefore are more flatulent. Arbuthnot.

3.
a.

Turgid with flatus; as, a flatulent tumor. Quincy.

4.
a.

Pretentious without substance or reality; puffy; empty; vain; as, a flatulent vanity. He is too flatulent sometimes, and sometimes too dry. Dryden.