Fart vs Fard - What's the difference?
fart | fard |
(informal, mildly, vulgar) To emit digestive gases from the anus; to flatulate.
* 1728 , , "A Dialogue between Mad Mullinix and Timothy":
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.
(informal) An emission of digestive gases from the anus; a flatus.
* , II.12:
(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.
(archaic) Colour or paint, especially white paint, used on the face; makeup, war-paint.
* 1791 , John Whitaker, Rev. Gibbon’s Decline and Fall
(archaic) To paint, as the face or cheeks.
* Zachary Boyd
(archaic) To gloss over or embellish.
* 1606 , William Birnie, The blame of kirk-buriall
* 1816 , Sir Walter Scott, Tales of my Landlord
As verbs the difference between fart and fard
is that fart is to emit digestive gases from the anus; to flatulate while fard is to paint, as the face or cheeks.As nouns the difference between fart and fard
is that fart is an emission of digestive gases from the anus; a flatus while fard is colour or paint, especially white paint, used on the face; makeup, war-paint.fart
English
(wikipedia fart)Verb
(en verb)- I fart with twenty ladies by;
- They call me beast; and what care I?
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 alsoNoun
(en noun)- 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.
Synonyms
(an emission of flatulent gases) * barking spider * bottom burp * flatus * fluffer-doodle * air biscuit * poot * raspberry tart (Cockney rhyming slang) * toot * beef * See alsoDerived terms
{{der3, armpit fart , brain fart , duck fart , fanny fart , farter , farting , fart sack , nun fart , old fart , sparrow-fart}}See also
* burp * flatulence * flatulent * flatus * queefAnagrams
* * * * ----fard
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl), from (etyl) .Alternative forms
* ** faird * ** feardNoun
(-)- Painted with French fard .
Verb
(en verb)- The fairest are but farded like the face of Jezebel.
- Our funerals wherewith we but feard death.
- Nor will my conscience permit me to fard or daub over the causes of divine wrath.
