farting

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈfɑːtɪŋ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfɑɹtɪŋ/

Verb

farting

1. present participle and gerund of fart

Noun

farting (plural fartings)

1. The act of one who farts; a sound like a fart.
   • 1989, William H. MacLeish, The Gulf Stream:

     Noise grew everywhere — radios, monstrous tape decks, the fartings of untuned engines.

   • 2007, Roger Angell, Let Me Finish, page 44:

     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.

Translations

The act of passing wind

• Maori: paterotanga

Anagrams

• ingraft, rafting