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flatulent
[flach′ələnt]
Etymology: L, flatus, a blowing
pertaining to gas or air in the digestive tract.
flatulent [flat´u-lent]
characterized by flatulence; distended with gas.
flatulent
characterized by flatulence; distended with gas.
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Describing a ball in Bath, Tobias Smollett wrote in The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker of the "mingled odours that arose from putrid gums, imposthumated lungs, sour flatulencies, rank armpits, sweating feet, running sores and issues" worsened by primitive perfumes and Colognes.
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