• (RP) enPR: färt, IPA: /fɑːt/
• (GA) enPR: färt, IPA: /fɑɹt/

fart (farts, present participle farting; past and past participle farted)

1. (informal, impolite, intransitive) To emit digestive gases from the anus; to flatulate.

   Synonyms: beef, blow off, break wind, cut one loose, cut the cheese, flatulate, Thesaurus:flatulate

2. (colloquial, intransitive, usually, as "fart around") To waste time with idle and inconsequential tasks; to go about one's activities in a lackadaisical manner; to be lazy or over-relaxed in one's manner or bearing.

   Synonyms: futz, fool around, fool about

3. (figuratively, transitive) To emit (fumes, gases, etc.).
   • 1988, Peter Carey (novelist), Oscar and Lucinda, London: Faber and Faber, 1989, Chapter 95, p. 457,

     Above his head the funnel farted black soot into the sky.

   • 2014, Marlon James (novelist), A Brief History of Seven Killings, New York: Riverhead Books, p. 139,

     We’ve been stuck behind a Ford Escort farting black smoke for ten minutes.

• French: péter, faire un pet, faire un prout, prouter (childish), lâcher une caisse (colloquial), avoir des gaz, lâcher une perle (colloquial), lâcher Médor (popular)
• German: furzen, pupsen
• Italian: scoreggiare, peto
• Portuguese: peidar
• Russian: перде́ть
• Spanish: peer, soltar un pedo, pedorrear, ventosear

fart (plural farts)

1. (informal) An emission of digestive gases from the anus; a flatus. [from 15th c.]
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821 ↗:

     Metrocles somewhat indiscreetly, as he was disputing in his Schole, in presence of his auditory, let a fart, for shame whereof he afterwards kept his house and could not be drawen abroad […].

2. (colloquial, impolite, pejorative) An irritating person; a fool.
3. (colloquial, impolite, pejorative, potentially offensive) (usually as "old fart") An elderly person; especially one perceived to hold old-fashioned views.

• See also Thesaurus:flatus

• French: pet, vesse
• German: Furz, Fürze, Pups
• Italian: scoreggia, peto, flato, loffa, vescia
• Portuguese: peido, pum
• Russian: перде́ние
• Spanish: pedo

• German: alter Knacker
• Russian: ста́рый хрыч