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English
Etymology
Compare French flatueux.
Adjective
flatuous (comparative more flatuous, superlative most flatuous)
- (obsolete) windy; full of wind
1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. , London: William Rawley ; rinted by J H for William Lee , →OCLC:rhubarb is a medicine which the stomach in a small quantity doth digest and overcome, being not flatuous nor lothsome, and so sendeth it to the mesentery veins ; and so being opening , it helpeth down urine
- (obsolete) generating flatulence; flatulent
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