break wind

English

Etymology

First attested 1552. From break + wind (“flatulence”).

Verb

break wind (third-person singular simple present breaks wind, present participle breaking wind, simple past broke wind, past participle broken wind)

(idiomatic, euphemistic) To expel gases generated during digestion, especially through the anus; to fart or flatulate.
Then one of the people on the bus broke wind.

Synonyms

(expel gases through the anus): break ass, pass gas, cut the cheese, fart, flatulate, toot, guff
See also Thesaurus:flatulate

Related terms

break wind backwards
break wind upwards

Translations

to fart

Bulgarian: пу́скам га́зове (púskam gázove)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 放屁 (zh) (fàngpì)
Czech: pouštět větry
Dutch: een wind laten, een scheet laten
Finnish: pierrä (fi)
French: lâcher (fr), en lâcher un (to let one loose), péter (fr)
German: furzen (de)
Greek: κλάνω (el) (kláno)
Ancient: ἀποπέρδομαι (apopérdomai)

Ido: flatuar (io)
Italian: mollarne una
Japanese: おならをする (ja) (onara o suru)
Macedonian: пу́ва (púva)
Portuguese: soltar gases
Russian: пу́кать (ru) impf (púkatʹ), пу́кнуть (ru) pf (púknutʹ), испуска́ть га́зы impf (ispuskátʹ gázy), испусти́ть га́зы pf (ispustítʹ gázy)
Spanish: peer (es), peerse (es)
Turkish: yellenmek (tr)

Anagrams

wind-break, windbreak

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