farting
nounUK /ˈfɑːtɪŋ/ · US /ˈfɑɹtɪŋ/
Etymology From Middle English fartynge, fartyng, ferting, from Old English feorting (“farting”), equivalent to fart + -ing.
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The act of one who farts; a sound like a fart.
- Noise grew everywhere — radios, monstrous tape decks, the fartings of untuned engines.1989, William H. MacLeish, The Gulf Stream:
- Observing the pantings and fartings of our old Boston terrier Tunney one day, he proposed that the federal government should fund a plan like the Passamaquoddy Bay project that would put all this energy to some use.2007, Roger Angell, Let Me Finish, page 44: