Fart

Fart: This is not an accepted medical word for passing gas. The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) notes that fart is ôNot in decent use.ö The OED defines the transitive verb form of fart: ôTo send forth as wind from the anus 1632.ö The word comes from the Old English ôfeortanö (meaning ôto break windö) and was used by the likes of the poet Geoffrey Chaucer. Excess gas in the intestinal is medically termed ôflatulence.ö What is excess gas is difficult to define since symptom-free individuals have recorded approximately 14 passages of gas per 24 hours.