Past tense of fart; expelled gas from the stomach through the anus, often audibly.
From Old English 'feortan,' likely imitative or onomatopoetic in origin, related to Old Norse 'freta.' The word is genuinely ancient and appears in literature for centuries—it's considered vulgar but was once perfectly acceptable in formal writing.
Benjamin Franklin wrote an entire scientific essay called 'Fart Proudly' defending the topic as worthy of study, and the word 'fart' appears in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales from the 1300s, proving farts are timeless.
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