different between fart vs belch

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b?lt?/
• Rhymes: -?lt?

Etymology

From Middle English belchen, from Old English biel?an, from Proto-Germanic *balkijan?, *belkan?, related to Dutch balken (“to bray”), Middle Low German belken (“to shout”), Low German bölken (“to shout, bark”), Old English beal?ettan (“to utter, send forth”). See also English bolk, boak.

Verb

belch (third-person singular simple present belches, present participle belching, simple past and past participle belched)

1. (intransitive, transitive) To expel (gas) loudly from the stomach through the mouth.

   My father used to belch after having a fine meal.

   • c. 1604, William Shakespeare, Othello, Act III, Scene 4, [1]

     'Tis not a year or two shows us a man:

     They are all but stomachs, and we all but food;

     To eat us hungerly, and when they are full,

     They belch us.

   • 1746, attributed to Jonathan Swift, "A Love Poem form a Physician to his Mistress," [2]

     When I an amorous kiss design'd,

     I belch'd a hurricane of wind.

   • 1980, J. M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians, Penguin, 19982, Chapter 2, p. 41,

     She eats too fast, belches behind a cupped hand, smiles.

2. (transitive) To eject or emit (something) with spasmodic force or noise.

   Yes, we have seen the wrecked cars and the factories belching smoke and the blur of speedy automobiles crowding highways.

   • 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 10, lines 230-33, [3]

     Within the gates of hell sat Sin and Death,

     In counterview within the gates, that now

     Stood open wide, belching outrageous flame

     Far into Chaos […] .

   • 1697, Virgil, Aeneid, translated by John Dryden, Book VIII, [4]

     Vulcan this plague begot; and, like his sire,

     Black clouds he belch'd, and flakes of livid fire.

   • 1914, Harry Kemp, "I sing the Battle", [5]

     I sing the song of the great clean guns that belch forth death at will.

     Ah, but the wailing mothers, the lifeless forms and still!

3. (intransitive) To be ejected or emitted (from something) with spasmodic force or noise.
   • 1793, William Blake, Visions of the Daughters of Albion, lines 30-33, [6]

     […] beneath him sound like waves on a desert shore

     The voice of slaves beneath the sun, and children bought with money,

     That shiver in religious caves beneath the burning fires

     Of lust, that belch incessant from the summits of the earth.

Synonyms

• (expel gas): burp

Translations

Related terms

• fart
• pass gas

Noun

belch (plural belches)

1. The sound one makes when belching.
2. (obsolete) Malt liquor.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Dennis to this entry?)

Usage notes

A belch is often considered to be louder than a burp.

Synonyms

• burp

Translations

Anagrams

• blech