different between fart vs arse

English

Etymology

From Middle English ferten, farten, from Old English feortan, from Proto-Germanic *fertan?, from Proto-Indo-European *perd-.

The noun is from Middle English fert, fart, from the verb.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: färt, IPA^(key): /f??t/
• (General American) enPR: färt, IPA^(key): /f??t/
• Rhymes: -??(?)t

Verb

fart (third-person singular simple present farts, present participle farting, simple past and past participle farted)

1. (informal, impolite, intransitive) To emit digestive gases from the anus; to flatulate.

   Synonyms: beef, blow off, break wind, cut one loose, cut the cheese, flatulate; see also Thesaurus:flatulate
2. (colloquial, intransitive, usually as "fart around") To waste time with idle and inconsequential tasks; to go about one's activities in a lackadaisical manner; to be lazy or over-relaxed in one's manner or bearing.

   Synonyms: futz, fool around, fool about

3. (figuratively, transitive) To emit (fumes, gases, etc.).
   • 1988, Peter Carey, Oscar and Lucinda, London: Faber and Faber, 1989, Chapter 95, p. 457,^[2]

     Above his head the funnel farted black soot into the sky.

   • 2014, Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings, New York: Riverhead Books, p. 139,^[3]

     We’ve been stuck behind a Ford Escort farting black smoke for ten minutes.

Usage notes

This term, although considered somewhat impolite, is not generally considered vulgar. It once was, and there still may be some that do consider it to be, so it is best avoided in polite discourse.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

fart (plural farts)

1. (informal) An emission of digestive gases from the anus; a flatus. [from 15th c.]
2. (colloquial, impolite, derogatory) An irritating person; a fool.
3. (colloquial, impolite, derogatory, potentially offensive) (usually as "old fart") An elderly person; especially one perceived to hold old-fashioned views.

Synonyms

Derived terms

Translations

See also

Anagrams

• FRTA, RTFA, TRAF, frat, raft, traf

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin fartus.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?fa?t/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?fart/

Adjective

fart (feminine farta, masculine plural farts, feminine plural fartes)

1. stuffed
2. fed up

Danish

Etymology

From Middle Low German vart, from Proto-Germanic *fardiz, cognate with Dutch vaart, German Fahrt, Old Norse ferð. Doublet of færd (“journey”),

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /far?t/, [?f??d?]

Noun

fart c (singular definite farten, plural indefinite farter)

1. (uncountable) speed

   Synonym: (non-technical contexts) hastighed

2. (physics) speed (magnitude of velocity, if seen as a vector)
3. (sailing) trip; journey; trade.

Inflection

Derived terms

References

• “fart” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Etymology

Probably from Norwegian fart (“travel, velocity, speed”), from Middle Low German vart, Old High German vart, from Proto-Germanic *fardiz. Related to German Fahrt (“journey, ride”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fa?/

Noun

fart m (plural farts)

1. wax (for skis)

Further reading

• “fart” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Hungarian

Etymology

far +? -t

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?f?rt]
• Hyphenation: fart

Noun

fart

1. accusative singular of far

Icelandic

Etymology

Borrowed from Danish fart.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /far?t/
• Rhymes: -ar?t

Noun

fart f (genitive singular fartar, no plural)

1. (informal) speed

Declension

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Middle Low German vart, related to fare (“fare, travel”).

Noun

fart m (definite singular farten, indefinite plural farter, definite plural fartene)

1. velocity, speed

   Synonyms: hastighet, tempo

2. movement, motion

   Synonyms: bevegelse, gang

3. transportation

   Synonyms: ferdsel, reise, tur

4. high speed, vigor, drive

   Synonyms: driv, fres, liv

Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

fart

1. past participle of fare

References

• “fart” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “fart” in The Ordnett Dictionary

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Middle Low German vart.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?rt/

Noun

fart m (definite singular farten, indefinite plural fartar, definite plural fartane)

1. speed, velocity
2. movement, motion
3. transport, transportation, traffic

Derived terms

References

• “fart” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old High German

Alternative forms

• vart

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *fardi, from Proto-Germanic *fardiz, whence also Old English fierd, Old Norse ferð.

Noun

fart f

1. trip
2. ride

Descendants

• German: Fahrt

Polish

Etymology

From German Fahrt, from Old High German vart, from Proto-West Germanic *fardi, from Proto-Germanic *fardiz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fart/

Noun

fart m inan

1. (colloquial) luck

   Synonym: szcz??cie

   Antonyms: niefart, pech

2. (colloquial) fluke; stroke of luck

   Synonyms: fuks, ?ut szcz??cia

Declension

Further reading

• fart in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• fart in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Swedish

Etymology

From Middle Low German vart, from Old Saxon fard. Cognate with Swedish färd, Dutch vaart, German Fahrt.

Pronunciation

Noun

fart c

1. speed
   • 1917, Bible, Jeremiah 48:16:

     Snart kommer Moabs ofärd, och hans olycka hastar fram med fart.

     Soon comes Moab’s calamity, and his misery hastes with speed.

Usage notes

• As a suffix in certain compounds (listed separately below) this word takes on the meaning of "road", "ramp" or "journey", just like German Fahrt or Swedish färd, rather than the standalone meaning of speed. Similar compounds with the suffix -färd exist, with slightly different meaning.
• In many compounds and in more formal or scientific use, speed translates to hastighet (“velocity”) rather than fart.

Declension

Derived terms

Compounds with the meaning of road, ramp, or journey

See also

• fort
• hastighet

English

Alternative forms

• ass (US)

Etymology

From Middle English ars, ers, from Old English ærs, ears, from Proto-West Germanic *ars, from Proto-Germanic *arsaz (compare Dutch aars and German Arsch), from Proto-Indo-European *h?érsos (“backside, buttocks”) (according to Julius Pokorny and Carl Darling Buck).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??s/
• (General Australian, General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /??s/
• (Ireland, US) IPA^(key): /??s/
• Rhymes: -??(?)s

Noun

arse (plural arses)

1. (current in South Africa, Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, dated in New England, now vulgar) The buttocks or more specifically, the anus.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:buttocks, Thesaurus:anus

   • 2011, James Smart, The Guardian, 12 March:

     As the novel progresses, he is shot in the hand with his own gun, shot in the arse with someone else's and lacerated by a prosthetic weed trimmer.
2. (chiefly Britain, derogatory slang) A stupid, mean or despicable person.
   • 2007, Martin Harrison, The Judgement of Paris, p.282:

     “You're an arse,” Ellen said. ¶ “Please? You must like something about me …?” ¶ “I do. You're an arse. I just told you that. I feel comfy with you, because you're such an arse.”

   • 2007, L. A. Wilson, The Silurian: Book One: The Fox and the Bear, p.103:

     He looked at me, was just about to call me an arse, when I told him, “You throw it too hard. Try and think of the javelin hitting the target before you throw it. Let it all go through your mind first, see it, feel it, then throw it.” ¶ “Good advice, you arse,” he said and tried again.

   • 2011, Joe Abercrombie, The Heroes, unnumbered page:

     Felnigg. What a suppurating arse. Look at him. Arse.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:arse.

Derived terms

Descendants

• Sranan Tongo: lasi

Translations

Verb

arse (third-person singular simple present arses, present participle arsing, simple past and past participle arsed)

1. (slang, intransitive) To be silly, act stupid or mess around.

   Stop arsing around!

   • 1985, Sam McAughtry, McAughtry's War, page 10,

     He was university material, just arsing about as a rigger, arsing about, killing time with bohunks like me […] .

   • 2005, Keri Hulme, The Bone People, page 291,

     Pi, upset, roars, "Quit arsing around there and get cracking," and a dozen heads turn their way.

   • 2011, Jaine Fenn, Bringer of Light, unnumbered page,

     He was half-expecting a call from the lingua, telling him to stop arsing around, but his com stayed silent, so it looked like a certain amount of arsing around was allowed.

Derived terms

• arse about (verb)
• arse around (verb)
• half-arsed (adjective)
• can't be arsed

Anagrams

• AREs, Ares, EARs, ERAs, Ersa, SERA, Sear, ares, ears, eras, rase, reas, sare, sear, sera

Italian

Adjective

arse f pl

1. feminine plural of arso

Verb

arse

1. third-person singular indicative past historic of ardere

Participle

arse

1. feminine plural of the past participle of ardere

Anagrams

• ersa, rase, resa, sera

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ar.se/, [?ärs??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ar.se/, [??rs?]

Participle

arse

1. vocative masculine singular of arsus

Old Irish

Etymology

Univerbation of airi (“for the sake of it; therefore”) +? se (“this”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ar??s?e/

Adverb

arse

1. therefore, for this/that reason

   Synonym: airi

   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 12^a22

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• ársis

Noun

arse f (plural arses)

1. (poetry, music) arsis (the stronger part of a measure or foot)

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?arse]

Adjective

arse

1. genitive/dative feminine singular of ars
2. nominative/accusative feminine/neuter plural of ars
3. genitive/dative feminine/neuter plural of ars

Verb

arse

1. third-person singular simple perfect indicative of arde