different between flatus vs toot

English

Etymology

Borrowed into English around 1660–1670; from Latin fl?tus (“blowing, wind, fart”), from fl? (“blow”).

Pronunciation

• (General American, Received Pronunciation)¹ IPA^(key): /?fle?t?s/
• (Received Pronunciation, extremely rare)² IPA^(key): /?flæt?s/
• Rhymes: -e?t?s, -æt?s
• Hyphenation: fla?tus

Noun

flatus (countable and uncountable, plural flatuses)

1. (uncountable) Gas generated in the digestive tract.
2. (countable) Expulsion of such gas through the anus.
   • 1940: Walter Robson Humphries, William Ogilvie and the Projected Union of the Colleges, 1786–1787, p70

     The point of quoque with illos is that those flatus, which have the right to be called winds, are also subject to laws like the winds themselves.

   • 2006: Steve Nichols, TARO of the FOUR WORLDS, p139 ?ISBN

     And as they perceived in her sundry natures, and divers properties, so they ascribed unto her divers and several names, and erected Statues and Altars unto her, according to those names, under which they then so worshipped and adored her, who (as I have already written) was with many taken and understood for Juno: and those flatus and images which were dedicated unto her, were made also many times of many other goddesses: whose properties signified them to be in nature the same as the earth, as first Lagran Madre, la Madre de i dei, Ope (Ops), Phes, Cibelle, Vesta, Ceres, Proserpina, and many others which of their places and habitations where they then remained, had their names accordingly, all signifying one & the same thing, being as I have said, the Earth, for which indeed, & from whose fruits, all things here in the world seem to receive their life and being, and are nourished & conserved by these fertileness thereof, and in this respect she was called the mother of the gods, insomuch, as all those gods of the Ancients, which were so superstitiously adored and held in that respective regardance, lived here once on the earth, and were fed and maintained by the increases, fruits, & suppeditaments thereof.

   • 2007: Harold John Cook, Matters of Exchange: Commerce, Medicine, and Science in the Dutch Golden Age, p373 ?ISBN

     A long summary of the work quickly appeared in the Royal Society’s Philosophical Transactions, which began with the theory Ten Rhijne’s had adapted from his Japanese colleagues: “This Author treating of the Gout, … asserts Flatus or Wind included between the Periosteum and the bone to be the genuine producer of those intolerable Pains … and that all the method of cure ought to tend toward the dispelling those Flatus”.¹⁵⁶

3. (obsolete) Morbid inflation or swelling.
   • 1730 April, Jonathan Swift, "A Vindication of the Lord Carteret", in Thomas Sheridan and John Nichols (Eds.), The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick’s, Dublin, Volume IX, J. Johnson &c. (1801), page 226,

     […] an incensed political surgeon, who is not in much renown for his mercy, upon great provocations: who, without waiting for his death, will flay and dissect him alive; and to the view of mankind lay open all the disordered cells of his brain, the venom of his tongue, the corruption of his heart, and spots and flatuses of his spleen: and all this for threepence.

Synonyms

• (expulsion): fart (impolite), flatulence.
• See also Thesaurus:flatus

Derived terms

• flatuency

Translations

References

Anagrams

• faults, futsal, ustalf

Esperanto

Verb

flatus

1. conditional of flati

Latin

Etymology

From fl? +? -tus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?fla?.tus/, [?f??ä?t??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?fla.tus/, [?fl??t?us]

Noun

fl?tus m (genitive fl?t?s); fourth declension

1. blowing, breathing, snorting
2. breath; breeze
3. soul (breath of life)

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Related terms

• fl?t?

Descendants

• Italian: fiato
• Piedmontese: fià
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: flât
  • Romansch: flad, fled, flà, flo
• ? English: flatus
• ? Portuguese: flato
• ? Spanish: flato

References

• flatus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• flatus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• flatus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

English

Etymology 1

Probably onomatopoetic in origin, compare Dutch toeteren (“to blow a horn”) and German tuten (“to blow a horn”).

Alternative forms

• tout (in some verb senses only)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tu?t/
• IPA^(key): /t?t/ (in sense of "rubbish, tat")
• Rhymes: -u?t
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

toot (countable and uncountable, plural toots)

1. The noise of a horn or whistle.

2. (by extension, informal) A fart; flatus.
3. (uncountable, slang) Cocaine.
4. (countable, slang) A portion of cocaine that a person snorts.
   • 1981, New York Magazine (volume 14, number 35, page 30)

     So he took a toot. A couple of days later he did another, then another. Soon Harry was using more coke than he had done in his whole life.

5. (informal) A spree of drunkness.
6. (informal, uncountable, pronounced /t?t/) Rubbish; tat.

7. (Internet) A message on the social networking software Mastodon.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

toot (third-person singular simple present toots, present participle tooting, simple past and past participle tooted)

1. To stand out, or be prominent.

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

2. To peep; to look narrowly.
   • November 9, 1550, Hugh Latimer, A Sermon preached at Stamford

     In the court, in the noblemen's houses, at every merchant's house, those Observants were spying, tooting, and looking, watching and prying, what they might hear or see against the see of Rome.
3. To see; to spy.
4. (slang) To flatulate.
5. To make the sound of a horn or whistle.
6. To cause a horn or whistle to make its sound.
7. (slang) To go on a drinking binge.
8. (slang) To snort (a recreational drug).
   • 2008, Robert L. Glover, Street Corner Symphony: An American Story (page 65)

     I had graduated from the simple tooting cocaine up my nose to smoking it, which was a completely different experience and animal.

9. To post a message on a Mastodon instance (a self-hosted version of the networking software).

Synonyms

• (to fart): See Thesaurus:flatulate
• (to sound a trumpet etc.): poop (obsolete)

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Perhaps a contraction of toilet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

toot (plural toots)

1. (Australia, slang) A toilet.

See also

• toot plant
• toot suite

Anagrams

• Otto, Toto, otto, toto

Westrobothnian

Etymology

Cognate with Swedish tota, dial. tåta.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ù?t

Verb

toot (preterite totä)

1. (with dill) To attempt; to try to imitate as best you can; mimic.

See also

• töt

References