Affected with flatus or gases generated in the alimentary canal; windy.
Generating, or tending to generate, wind in the stomach. Vegetables abound more with aërial particles than animal substances, and therefore are more flatulent. Arbuthnot.
Turgid with flatus; as, a flatulent tumor. Quincy.
Pretentious without substance or reality; puffy; empty; vain; as, a flatulent vanity. He is too flatulent sometimes, and sometimes too dry. Dryden.
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