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b>Fart: This is not an accepted
medical word for passing gas. Excess gas in the
intestinal is medically termed "flatulence." (But what is
excess gas is difficult to define since symptom-free
individuals have recorded approximately 14 passages of gas
per 24 hours!)
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED), in its inimitable way, notes that the word "fart" is "not in decent use." The OED defines the transitive verb form of fart: "To send forth as
wind from the anus 1632." The word comes from the Old
English "feortan" (meaning "to break wind"). Although the word "fart" is "not in decent use," it was used by
the likes of the great English poet Geoffrey Chaucer.
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