01 a. Affected with flatus{2} or gases generated in the alimentary canal; windy.
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Affected with flatus{2} or gases generated in the alimentary canal; windy.
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Generating, or tending to generate, wind in the stomach.“Vegetables abound more with aërial particles than animal substances, and therefore are more flatulent.” — Arbuthnot.
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Turgid with flatus; as, a flatulent tumor.
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Pretentious without substance or reality; puffy; empty; vain; as, a flatulent vanity.“He is too flatulent sometimes, and sometimes too dry.” — Dryden.