Forted vs Farted - What's the difference?
forted | farted |
(fort)
Ensconced in or protected by a fort.
* 1834 , David Crockett, A Narrative of the Life of , Nebraska 1987, p. 104:
(fart)
(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.
As verbs the difference between forted and farted
is that forted is past tense of fort while farted is past tense of fart.As an adjective forted
is ensconced in or protected by a fort.forted
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Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- The fort was built right in the middle of a large old field, and in it the people had been forted so long and so quietly, that they didn't apprehend any danger at all, and had, therefore, become quite careless.
farted
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
*fart
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(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.