Falter vs Farter - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between falter and farter

is that falter is butterfly while farter is someone or something that farts.

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unsteadiness.

(en verb)

To waver or be unsteady.

* Wiseman

He found his legs falter .

(ambitransitive) To stammer; to utter with hesitation, or in a weak and trembling manner.

* Byron

And here he faltered forth his last farewell.

* Milton

With faltering speech and visage incomposed.

To fail in distinctness or regularity of exercise; said of the mind or of thought.

* I. Taylor

Here indeed the power of disinct conception of space and distance falters .

To stumble.

(figuratively) To lose faith or vigor; to doubt or abandon (a cause).

And remember, comrades, your resolution must never falter .

To hesitate in purpose or action.

* Shakespeare

Ere her native king / Shall falter under foul rebellion's arms.

To cleanse or sift, as barley.

(Halliwell)

(en noun)

Someone or something that farts.

(dialectal) One who ambles along slowly.

The ten minute drive took forty minutes, stuck behind those farters from the backwoods.

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