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单词 flatulent
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Definition of flatulent in English:

flatulent

adjective ˈflatjʊl(ə)ntˈflætʃələnt
  • 1Suffering from or marked by an accumulation of gas in the alimentary canal.

    胃肠胀气的

    treat flatulent cows with caustic soda

    用苛性钠治疗胃肠胀气的奶牛。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • A lady with a flatulent Pekinese on her lap chipped in to tell us that the National Canine Defence League has changed its name to the Dogs Trust because its committee realised that very few people these days understand the word ‘canine’.
    • You're wedged in seat 21B between a nonstop chatterbox who thinks you care about her granddaughter's spelling bee and a flatulent salesman who enjoys scotch and snoring.
    • Austin, I am sure, had been forewarned of my flatulent aisle partner, who trapped me against the window with the force of her gases unmercilessly for the seven hour flight.
    • Gags about laxatives, projectile vomit, oversexed senior citizens and flatulent fat guys give the film all the zip and freshness of a lost Revenge of the Nerds sequel.
    • An emotionally confused daughter, a computer-recluse son and a cantankerously flatulent grandfather raise family bickering to an art.
    • The midge-magnet sucks in female midges by mimicking the smell of flatulent cows.
    • Rumor has it he's caught the scent of a new tax wafting its way up from New Zealand where they tax flatulent sheep, supposedly a contributor to ‘global warming.’
    • Well, the gases released when one is flatulent are essentially, carbon dioxide, nitrogen and hydrogen sulphide.
    • In a nicely creepy scene they watch in bewilderment as animals flee from its cover, and the appearance of a feverish, flatulent hunter spells much worse to come.
    • Speaking of wind, an Australian biologist has developed a serum which reduces methane gas from flatulent sheep and cows.
    • But such is his infectious brand of humour, it is likely that he will have requests for some of his funniest and most enduring routines such as the flatulent father of the bride, the drunk in the Chinese takeaway and, of course, Bottler.
    • Then there were the commercials, whose content included a flatulent horse, a fight between grandparents, and enough spots for impotence medications to raise the Titanic.
    1. 1.1 Related to or causing an accumulation of gas in the alimentary canal.
      胃肠胀气的
      the flatulent effect of beans

      豆类导致胃肠胀气的作用。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Other adverse effects from feeding high-quality alfalfa include gas or flatulent colic and skin lesions because of the rapid fermentation of its nutrients.
      • The flatulent effects can be reduced, some people claim, by soaking dried beans for at least 5 hours, then draining, rinsing, boiling for at least 10 minutes in fresh water, and draining and rinsing again before the final cooking.
    2. 1.2 Inflated or pretentious in speech or writing.
      〈喻〉(措辞)浮夸的;自命不凡的
      his flatulent oratory
      Example sentencesExamples
      • At these sickeningly boring events, the dubious decisions of an often shadowy jury are announced with flatulent rhetoric and overchewed jokes to the accompaniment of plastic food and dishwasher wine.
      • They ended the decade big in America, big pretty much everywhere in fact, but making grandiose, flatulent music which seemed a depressing quid pro quo of their stadium-filling status.
      • Most English historians were cured of such flatulent emotion by the carnage of the first world war, the desolation of the great slump and the perilously tight margin of victory in the second world war.
      Synonyms
      affected, ostentatious, chichi, showy, flashy, tinselly, conspicuous, flaunty, tasteless, kitschy

Derivatives

  • flatulently

  • adverb
    • Rather officiously (and more than a little flatulently), a backward drum loop announces its arrival.

Origin

Late 16th century: via French from modern Latin flatulentus, from Latin flatus 'blowing' (see flatus).

  • This word came via French from modern Latin flatulentus, from Latin flatus ‘blowing’.

Definition of flatulent in US English:

flatulent

adjectiveˈflaCHələntˈflætʃələnt
  • 1Suffering from or marked by an accumulation of gas in the alimentary canal.

    胃肠胀气的

    treat flatulent cows with caustic soda

    用苛性钠治疗胃肠胀气的奶牛。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Austin, I am sure, had been forewarned of my flatulent aisle partner, who trapped me against the window with the force of her gases unmercilessly for the seven hour flight.
    • But such is his infectious brand of humour, it is likely that he will have requests for some of his funniest and most enduring routines such as the flatulent father of the bride, the drunk in the Chinese takeaway and, of course, Bottler.
    • Well, the gases released when one is flatulent are essentially, carbon dioxide, nitrogen and hydrogen sulphide.
    • A lady with a flatulent Pekinese on her lap chipped in to tell us that the National Canine Defence League has changed its name to the Dogs Trust because its committee realised that very few people these days understand the word ‘canine’.
    • You're wedged in seat 21B between a nonstop chatterbox who thinks you care about her granddaughter's spelling bee and a flatulent salesman who enjoys scotch and snoring.
    • Speaking of wind, an Australian biologist has developed a serum which reduces methane gas from flatulent sheep and cows.
    • The midge-magnet sucks in female midges by mimicking the smell of flatulent cows.
    • An emotionally confused daughter, a computer-recluse son and a cantankerously flatulent grandfather raise family bickering to an art.
    • Rumor has it he's caught the scent of a new tax wafting its way up from New Zealand where they tax flatulent sheep, supposedly a contributor to ‘global warming.’
    • Gags about laxatives, projectile vomit, oversexed senior citizens and flatulent fat guys give the film all the zip and freshness of a lost Revenge of the Nerds sequel.
    • In a nicely creepy scene they watch in bewilderment as animals flee from its cover, and the appearance of a feverish, flatulent hunter spells much worse to come.
    • Then there were the commercials, whose content included a flatulent horse, a fight between grandparents, and enough spots for impotence medications to raise the Titanic.
    1. 1.1 Related to or causing an accumulation of gas in the alimentary canal.
      胃肠胀气的
      the flatulent effect of beans

      豆类导致胃肠胀气的作用。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Other adverse effects from feeding high-quality alfalfa include gas or flatulent colic and skin lesions because of the rapid fermentation of its nutrients.
      • The flatulent effects can be reduced, some people claim, by soaking dried beans for at least 5 hours, then draining, rinsing, boiling for at least 10 minutes in fresh water, and draining and rinsing again before the final cooking.
    2. 1.2 Inflated or pretentious in speech or writing.
      〈喻〉(措辞)浮夸的;自命不凡的
      the days of flatulent oratory are gone
      Example sentencesExamples
      • At these sickeningly boring events, the dubious decisions of an often shadowy jury are announced with flatulent rhetoric and overchewed jokes to the accompaniment of plastic food and dishwasher wine.
      • Most English historians were cured of such flatulent emotion by the carnage of the first world war, the desolation of the great slump and the perilously tight margin of victory in the second world war.
      • They ended the decade big in America, big pretty much everywhere in fact, but making grandiose, flatulent music which seemed a depressing quid pro quo of their stadium-filling status.
      Synonyms
      affected, ostentatious, chichi, showy, flashy, tinselly, conspicuous, flaunty, tasteless, kitschy

Origin

Late 16th century: via French from modern Latin flatulentus, from Latin flatus ‘blowing’ (see flatus).

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