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Definition: Flatulency |
FlatulencyNoun1. A state of excessive gas in the alimentary canal. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "flatulency" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1602. (references) |
Synonyms: FlatulencySynonyms: flatulence (n), gas (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Gaseity | Noun: gaseity; vaporousness. Adjective: flatulence, flatulency; volatility; aeration, aerification. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Language | Translations for "flatulency"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | fryrje (blow, blowing, bounce, bulge, distention, flatulence, hot air, inflation, injection, insufflation, puff, puffery, vainglory, wind), vanitet (flatulence), gazra stomaku (flatulence). (various references) | |
Arabic | نفخة (blast, breath, flatulence, gust, puff, whiff), نفث الغاز (flatulence), إمتلاء البطن بالغازات (flatulence), إدعاء فارغ (flatulence). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | надутост (airiness, bombast, flatulence, fustian, grandiloquence, haughtiness, inflation, magniloquence, pomposity, self-importance, theatricality, uppishness), метеоризъм (flatulence). (various references) | |
Czech | nadýmání (flatulence, swell). (various references) | |
French | flatulence (flatulence). (various references) | |
German | Blähsucht (bloat, bloat colic, hoven, tumpanites). (various references) | |
Greek | φούσκωμα (bump, flatulence, inflation, puff, swell, swelling, tumidness, turgidity, turgidness, upsurge), αέρια του στομάχου (flatulence). (various references) | |
Hebrew | פליטת 'אזים (flatulence). (various references) | |
Hungarian | felpuffadás (flatulence, inflation), elbizakodottság (cockiness, cock-sureness, confidence, flatulence, immodesty, pretension, pretentiousness, self-confidence, self-importance, side), beképzeltség (conceit, egotism, flatulence, self-confidence, self-importance, vainglory, vanity). (various references) | |
Italian | flatulenza (flatulence, wind). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | atulencyflay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | flatulência (flatulence, wind), vaidade (airs, conceit, concetto, flatulence, presumption, pretension, pride, self-conceit, self-importance, vainglory, vanity, vaunt). (various references) | |
Romanian | preţiozitate (affectation, affectedness, conceit, flatulence), meteorism (flatulence), emfazã (bombast, flatulence, importance). (various references) | |
Russian | напыщенность (bombast, flatulence, grandiloquence, highfaluting, orotundity, pomposity, pompousness, tumidity), метеоризм (flatulence), претенциозность (flatulence, pretence, pretension, pretentiousness). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | flatulencija (flatulence), naduvenost (flatulence, inflation), nadutost trbuha gasovima (flatulence). (various references) | |
Spanish | flatulencia (flatulence, wind), flato (flatulence, flatus, wind), hinchazón (flatulence, lump, puff, puffiness, swelling). (various references) | |
Swedish | väderspänning (flatulence), uppblåsthet (flatulence, inflation). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | спучування (flatulence, inflation), метеоризм (flatulence, wind, windiness). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Flatulency" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: flitelen. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-f-l-l-n-t-u-y" | |
-2 letters: fluently, lucently, lunately. | |
-3 letters: acutely, cleanly, faculty, flaunty, fluency, latency, nucleal. | |
-4 letters: acetyl, auntly, callet, canful, cantle, cental, cullay, cullet, cuneal, cutely, eluant, fallen, faucet, faulty, fealty, featly, fecula, flatly, flaunt, fluent, flutey, lacune, lancet, lanely, lately, launce, lealty, leanly, lucent, lunacy, lunate, luteal, neatly, unfelt, unlace. | |
-5 letters: acute, alley, aunty, canty, cella, centu. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-f-l-l-n-t-u-y" | |
+3 letters: centrifugally, ineffectually. | |
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