Fart vs Cough - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between fart and cough

is that fart is (informal|mildly|vulgar) to emit digestive gases from the anus; to flatulate while cough is to push air from the lungs in a quick, noisy explosion.

As nouns the difference between fart and cough

is that fart is (informal) an emission of digestive gases from the anus; a flatus while cough is a sudden, usually noisy expulsion of air from the lungs, often involuntary.

fart

English

(wikipedia fart)

Verb

(en verb)

(informal, mildly, vulgar) To emit digestive gases from the anus; to flatulate.

* 1728 , , "A Dialogue between Mad Mullinix and Timothy":

I fart with twenty ladies by;

They call me beast; and what care I?

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

* beef * blow off * break wind * cut one loose * cut the cheese * flatulate * guff * have gas * let one rip * pass gas * pass wind * poot * step on a duck * step on a frog * toot * blown bowel bugle * trouser cough (waste time with aimless activities) futz, fool around, fool about * See also

Noun

(en noun)

(informal) An emission of digestive gases from the anus; a flatus.

* , II.12:

Metrocles somewhat indiscreetly, as he was disputing in his Schole, in presence of his auditory, let a fart , for shame whereof he afterwards kept his house and could not be drawen abroad.

(colloquial, vulgar) An irritating person; a fool.

(colloquial, vulgar, potentially offensive) (usually as "old fart ") An elderly person; especially one perceived to hold old-fashioned views.

Synonyms

(an emission of flatulent gases) * barking spider * bottom burp * flatus * fluffer-doodle * air biscuit * poot * raspberry tart (Cockney rhyming slang) * toot * beef * See also

Derived terms

{{der3, armpit fart , brain fart , duck fart , fanny fart , farter , farting , fart sack , nun fart , old fart , sparrow-fart}}

Anagrams

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cough

English

Verb

(en verb)

To push air from the lungs in a quick, noisy explosion.

* , chapter=3

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the cough'ing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about ' cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.}}

* , title=(Jeeves in the Offing)

, section=chapter XI , passage=I drew a deep breath, and a moment later wished I hadn't, because I drew it while drinking the remains of my gin and tonic. “Does Kipper know of this?“ I said, when I had finished coughing .}}

To make a noise like a cough.

Derived terms

* cougher * cough up

Noun

(en noun)

A sudden, usually noisy expulsion of air from the lungs, often involuntary.

Behind me, I heard a distinct, dry cough .

A condition that causes one to cough; a tendency to cough.

Sorry, I can't come to work today – I've got a nasty cough .

He was – cough – indisposed.

Hyponyms

* barking cough * churchyard cough * congested cough * dry cough * hacking cough * loose cough * non-productive cough * productive cough * smoker's cough * wet cough

Derived terms

* cough mixture * cough syrup * whooping cough