old fart
An elderly person, especially one who holds old-fashioned views.
fart
/fɑːt/
noun 4verb 2
Collocations
5ADJ.
all, auditory, bound, huge, lethal, longer, still
VERB + FART
call, can't, don't, heard, hold, let, make, makes
FART + NOUN
bathroom, dignitaries, herders, it's, ladies, shame, soup, whereof
PREP.
in, in, on, with
ADV.
frequently, loudly, often, once, only
Definitions
verb
1
To emit digestive gases from the anus; to flatulate.
I fart with twenty ladies by; / They call me beast; and what care I?
2
To emit (fumes, gases, etc.).
Above his head the funnel farted black soot into the sky.
We’ve been stuck behind a Ford Escort farting black smoke for ten minutes.
noun
1
An emission of digestive gases from the anus; a flatus.
I think I heard a fart. Was it you, Nigel?
Silent farts are often the smelliest.
2
An irritating person; a fool.
3
One who is inflexibly meticulous.
noun
1
A trans-exclusionary radical feminist (TERF).
Reminder that FARTs don't actually believe trans women are men. They don't speak to people they think are men the way they do to trans women.
“Blaming trans people for everything” is to FARTs as Three Blind Mice is to the bloody recorder.
Thesaurus
Idioms & Phrases
fart in a windstorm
Something utterly insignificant, ineffective, or fleeting.
[I]t vanished like a fart in a windstorm.
fart in an elevator
Something proverbially unpopular or useless.
Second, if I told people that God didn't create the world, I have a feeling it would probably go over about as big as a fart in an elevator.
fart fan
A ceiling fan in a bathroom
mare's fart
A nickname for a type of flower.
[...] ragwort posed the principle weed problem, many fields being heavily infested. The still-used local [name] of mare’s fart in adjacent North Shropshire and Cheshire [...] sugge
Example Bank
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I fart with twenty ladies by; / They call me beast; and what care I?
Wiktionary02
Above his head the funnel farted black soot into the sky.
Wiktionary03
We’ve been stuck behind a Ford Escort farting black smoke for ten minutes.
Wiktionary04
I think I heard a fart. Was it you, Nigel?
Wiktionary05
Silent farts are often the smelliest.
Wiktionary06
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[…].
WiktionaryUsage Notes
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In some senses, fart is marked as informal, figuratively, derogatory. Watch for register when choosing this word.
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