Fart vs Smell - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between fart and smell

is that fart is (informal|mildly|vulgar) to emit digestive gases from the anus; to flatulate while smell is to sense a smell or smells.

As nouns the difference between fart and smell

is that fart is (informal) an emission of digestive gases from the anus; a flatus while smell is a sensation, pleasant or unpleasant, detected by inhaling air (or, the case of water-breathing animals, water) carrying airborne molecules of a substance.

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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smell

English

Noun

A sensation, pleasant or unpleasant, detected by inhaling air (or, the case of water-breathing animals, water) carrying airborne molecules of a substance.

I love the smell of fresh bread.

* 1908 , (Kenneth Grahame), (The Wind in the Willows)

The penetrating smell' of cabbage reached the nose of Toad as he lay prostrate in his misery on the floor, and gave him the idea for a moment that perhaps life was not such a blank and desperate thing as he had imagined. But still he wailed, and kicked with his legs, and refused to be comforted. So the wise girl retired for the time, but, of course, a good deal of the ' smell of hot cabbage remained behind, as it will do, and Toad, between his sobs, sniffed and reflected, and gradually began to think new and inspiring thoughts: of chivalry, and poetry...

(physiology) The sense that detects odours.

Usage notes

* Adjectives often applied to "smell": sweet, good, nice, great, pleasant, fresh, fragrant, bad, foul, unpleasant, horrible, terrible, awful, nasty, disgusting, funny, strange, odd, sour, funky, metallic, stinky, rotten, rancid, putrid, rank, fishy.

Synonyms

* (sensation) ** (pleasant) aroma, fragrance, odor/odour, scent ** (unpleasant) odor/odour, niff (informal), pong (informal), reek, stench, stink, whiff (informal) * (sense) olfaction (in technical use), sense of smell * See also

Verb

To sense a smell or smells.

To have a particular smell, whether good or bad; if descriptive, followed by "like" or "of".

* , chapter=8

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=Philander went into the next room

(without a modifier) To smell bad; to stink.

(figurative) To have a particular tincture or smack of any quality; to savour.

* (John Milton)

Praises in an enemy are superfluous, or smell of craft.

(obsolete) To exercise sagacity.

(Shakespeare)

To detect or perceive; often with out .

* Shakespeare

I smell a device.

(obsolete) To give heed to.

* Latimer

From that time forward I began to smell the Word of God, and forsook the school doctors.

Usage notes

The sense "to smell bad, stink" is considered by some to be an incorrect substitute for stink.

Synonyms

* (sense a smell or smells) detect, sense * (have the smell of) (all followed by'' like''' ''or'' ' of ) ** (pleasant) ** (unpleasant) pong (informal), reek, stink, whiff (informal)

Derived terms

* code smells * sense of smell (see olfaction) * smell a rat * smell blood * smell like a rose * smell of an oily rag * smell test * smell the barn * smelly * wake up and smell the coffee

References

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Anagrams

* English irregular verbs 1000 English basic words