flatus

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈfleɪtəs/    美 /ˈfleɪtəs/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Gas generated in the digestive tract. uncountable
    — This expression is utterly devoid of meaning, a mere flatus vocis.
  2. Expulsion of such gas through the anus. countable
    — The point of quoque with illos is that those flatus, which have the right to be called winds, are also subject to laws like the winds themselves.
  3. Morbid inflation or swelling. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — 1730 April, Jonathan Swift, "A Vindication of the Lord Carteret", in Thomas Sheridan and John Nichols (Eds.), The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick’s, Dublin, Volume IX, J. Johnson &c. (1801), page 226, […] an incensed political surgeon, who is not in much renown for his mercy, upon great provocations: who, without waiting for his death, will flay and dissect him alive; and to the view of mankind lay open all the disordered cells of his brain, the venom of his tongue, the corruption of his heart, and spots and flatuses of his spleen: and all this for threepence.

词形变化

flatuses plural flatus plural

词汇关系

近义词
air biscuit barking spider beef biological warfare bottom burp botty burp butt burp curmurring emission fart feist fise fist flatulence flatus guff poot raspberry tart SBD toot trouser cough whooper wind windy
衍生词
antiflatus flatuency
相关词
flatulate flatulent

词源

Learned borrowing from Latin flātus (“blowing, wind, fart”). First attested in the 1660s–1670s.
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