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Definition of Break wind
1. Verb. Expel intestinal gases through the anus.
Generic synonyms: Act Involuntarily, Act Reflexively
Derivative terms: Fart, Farting
Definition of Break wind
1. Verb. (idiomatic euphemistic) To expel gases generated during digestion, especially through the anus; to fart or flatulate. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Break Wind
Literary usage of Break wind
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: To which is by John Jamieson (1880)
"They hunt about from house to house,— Still girding at the barley-juice, And oft
get drunk. [4. To beat severely, to punish.] [5. To break wind a ..."
2. Trukese-English Dictionary =: Pwpwuken Tettenin Fóós, Chuuk-Ingenes by Ward Hunt Goodenough, Hiroshi Sugita (1990)
"become detached or break off (downward). break out menu(vi.): break out in scabies.
break wind sin, sing (vi., Tbl.): break wind, ..."
3. Stemmata Latinitatis: Or, An Etymological Latin Dictionary: Wherein the by Nicholas Salmon (1796)
"... break wind the arfi, the fundament, breech or bum ground, foil, land; epipedon,
... break wind ..."
4. Christian missions: their agents, their method, and their results by Thomas William M. Marshall (1862)
"... and lined it thickly with fern, not as a break-wind or shelter, hut, as he
told us, that the one party might not be able even to look upon the other. ..."
5. The Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary by Edward Tregear (1891)
"Manga- revan—hu, to burst, to crack, snap ; u, to bark, hoot at ; uu, to break wind.
... Mangaian—u, to puff ; to break wind: Ua, e Tiki, ..."
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