Flatulate
Origin
Back-formation from {{3}}, ultimately of Latin origin.
Full definition of flatulate
Verb
- To emit digestive gases from the anus, especially with accompanying sound.
- 1985, James L. Framo, “Rationale and Techniques of Intensive Family Therapy,†in Intensive Family Therapy, Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy and James L. Framo eds. http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=kfmXSIJPvqEC&pg=PA206&lpg=PA206&sig=b3bCCRJV6GdT6XexcyD0xVyRv88,Where else but in his own castle, with his own family, can a person pick his nose, flatulate, lose his temper with impunity, whine, let the child in him emerge—in short, regress and “be himself�
- 2001, David Kerans, Mind and Labor on the Farm in Black-Earth Russia http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=SN28F6LNYJoC&pg=PA20&lpg=PA20&sig=TxBZb0PuzZQD6OuKnQXuKucBX1A,Horses defecate and flatulate on the move.
- 2003, Vamik D Volkan, The Third Reich in the Unconscious http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=wCwan_Ke3F4C&pg=PA80&lpg=PA80&sig=zg3oFEhd0DWY8D4bYGx2SIx3ieg,While in the bathtub, he thought that he had to flatulate, but defecated instead. His mother had berated him mercilessly.