FLATULENT

flatulent|flatuous. Flatulent, or Flatuous, a. windy, puffy, empty, vain

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Flat″u‐lent (?), a. [[L. flatus a blowing, flatus ventris windiness, flatulence, fr. flare to blow: cf. F. flatulent. See Blow.]] 1. 1. Affected with flatus or gases generated in the alimentary canal; windy.
2. 2. Generating, or tending to generate, wind in the stomach.
Vegetables abound more with aërial particles than animal substances, and therefore are more flatulent. Arbuthnot. 3. 3. Turgid with flatus; as, a flatulent tumor. Quincy.
4. 4. Pretentious without substance or reality; puffy; empty; vain; as, a flatulent vanity.
He is too flatulent sometimes, and sometimes too dry. Dryden.