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Farty vs Farcy - What's the difference?

farty | farcy |

As an adjective farty

is (informal) resembling or characteristic of a fart; flatulent.

As a noun farcy is

a contagious disease of horses, resembling glanders.

farty

English

Adjective

(fartier)
  • (informal) Resembling or characteristic of a fart; flatulent.
  • * 2005 , Craig Sherborne, Hoi Polloi (page 66)
    • He slaps me playfully on the knee just as Heels opens the flat's door letting in a farty smell of boiling vegetables from the rest of the building.
  • (chiefly, British, informal) Small and insignificant; petty.
  • * 2008 , Milly Johnson, The Birds and the Bees
    • If the bloody basic bill wasn't bad enough, he discovered all the ironing services she had charged to the room, and she had just wasted another fifteen quid on coffee and farty little chocolate truffles

    farcy

    English

    Alternative forms

    * farcimen * farcin

    Noun

    (-)
  • A contagious disease of horses, resembling glanders.
    • (Webster 1913)