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fartful

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English

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Etymology

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From fart +‎ -ful.

Adjective

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fartful (comparative more fartful, superlative most fartful)

  1. Full of farts; flatulent or characteristic of farts.
    • 1971, Douglas Woolf, Ya!: And, John-Juan : Two Novels, page 32:
      Closing his nose against the fartful air, Al eyed soft drink stands, en passant.
    • 2006, B. Kojo Laing, Big Bishop Roko and the Altar Gangsters: A Novel, page 78:
      Yet I was fully convinced he had enough excess air inside himself to restart our wind-laden extravaganzas, our fartful improvisations.
    • 2007, W. Schmitz The Violet Catastrophe, The Violet Catastrophe, page 232:
      You mean that fartful old turd has money to buy Chinese horses, but is too cheap and dumb to buy any thing from me?
    • 2016, Bill Reed, Lankan 1001 Nights book 2:
      It wasn't out of any houndswell from hell that brought her out on the sulphurous fartful excuse-mes and the grosh lines of the mad hatter mud crabs of the mangrove groozes.