Hi,
could ypu please help me with the meaning of "do a fart".
I think it is the same of "fart", right?
Thanks a lot
could ypu please help me with the meaning of "do a fart".
I think it is the same of "fart", right?
Thanks a lot
do a fart
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Wouldn't a child say that when asking his uncle to do that sound with his armpit?
Hahah...hmm, didn't think of that. I guess a little kid could, why not!
"Uncle Joe, do a fart."
"Uncle Joe, make a fart/farting sound."
From the British end, I've never heard "do a fart" either. "Have a fart", at the most, but usually just "fart". Oh, and of course, "to let off a (XXX) fart" (useful if you want to put an adjective where the x's are)
From the British end, I've never heard "do a fart" either. "Have a fart", at the most, but usually just "fart". Oh, and of course, "to let off a (XXX) fart" (useful if you want to put an adjective where the x's are)
Even when it's an imitation fart? (armpit, mouth, whopee cushion,...)
No, I was talking about real ones. I'm not sure what verb I'd use with imitation ones.
It depends a bit on the context, I think.
"You're making a funny face. Are you trying to do a fart?" is not a really natural phrasing, but I can imagine someone saying it that way.
"I was driving down the road and then my car did a fart. The transmission dropped right out of it." This meaning/usage could be applied to anything going wrong, whether or not there is a smell or a bad sound.
"You're making a funny face. Are you trying to do a fart?" is not a really natural phrasing, but I can imagine someone saying it that way.
"I was driving down the road and then my car did a fart. The transmission dropped right out of it." This meaning/usage could be applied to anything going wrong, whether or not there is a smell or a bad sound.
I've never personally heard of "doing a fart" in the sense of "something going wrong" but I can believe it. In fact, that was exactly what I, as a child, thought was happening when our 1960's Volkswagen Beetle used to backfire.
I would say "make a farting noise."
Or "Uncle, do the fart thing..."
I think you could say "to lay a fart"but I am not sure.
Not in AE.
Nor this side of the pond.
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En la familia de mi esposa dicen que alguien "hizo una pluma". However, in my own family, we grew up saying someone "fluffed" no doubt to avoid saying fart which was considered vulgar and could get your mouth washed out with soap. Times have changed and now farted is as common as burped.
In addition to the basic verb, to fart, in AmEn we also use the noun with two other verbs:
to cut a fart
to let a fart
The first one led to (or possibly came from) the expression "to cut the cheese" (= to fart, because some cheeses have very strong odors, which are emitted when a fresh wheel of cheese is cut open). We also say "to cut one."
When I was a child, my mother (like Pops' family) thought "fart" was too vulgar, so she always said "to pass gas," which I believe is the medical term and is still used whenever sensitivity is desired.
to cut a fart
to let a fart
The first one led to (or possibly came from) the expression "to cut the cheese" (= to fart, because some cheeses have very strong odors, which are emitted when a fresh wheel of cheese is cut open). We also say "to cut one."
When I was a child, my mother (like Pops' family) thought "fart" was too vulgar, so she always said "to pass gas," which I believe is the medical term and is still used whenever sensitivity is desired.
Other possibilities are "to let a fart fly," "to let fly a fart," and "to let one fly." Chaucer, in The Miller's Tale, wrote This Nicholas anon let fle a fart, As greet as it had been a thonder-dent."
technically it's "flatulence" but I would say the majority aren't familiar with the term, so "pass gas" is commonly used or "break wind"
My mom encouraged my brothers and me to substitute "bart" or even "pook" for "fart," which she apparently considered too vulgar for polite society. Despite this, my academic interests led me to explore cultural and religious taboos in my interdisciplinary classes. My annual lecture on censorship, language and culture, originally delivered to an registered audience of 25-35, grew to require an auditorium in order to to accommodate the ever-growing non-enrolled demand. I explored the language and culture of Shakespeare, Chaucer, and Old French literature (Le chevalier qui fist parler les cons), etc. The single best compliment of my academic career came for a very intelligent but almost painfully quiet young woman who, having never participated in discussions in several of my classes, told me after my presentation that "that was a fucking good lecture today."
I love it when students come out of their shells like that, it makes it all worthwhile.
I had one student who was painfully shy and withdrawn and, on top of that, she had health issues. Then, in one lesson, I managed to make her smile and laugh. I had tears of joy.
Masood. your reply from a kindred soul (al otru llau del charcu) brightened my day. My degree and most of my teaching has been in genetics (and evolution), but my broader interests (and those of my academic colleagues) have always been deeply rooted in the humanities.
Este hilo antiguo nunca tuvo un contexto adecuado y por lo tanto va a ser borrado.
Gracias por su participación,
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Gracias por su participación,
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