First attested 1552. From break + wind (“flatulence”).
break wind (third-person singular simple present breaks wind, present participle breaking wind, simple past broke wind, past participle broken wind)
- (idiomatic, euphemistic) To expel gases generated during digestion, especially through the anus; to fart.
I broke wind and excused myself afterwards.
to flatulate
- Arabic: ضَرَطَ (ḍaraṭa)
- Bulgarian: пу́скам га́зове (púskam gázove)
- Cheyenne: -pánestse
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 放屁 (zh) (fàngpì)
- Czech: pouštět větry
- Dutch: een wind laten, een scheet laten
- Esperanto: furzi
- Finnish: pierrä (fi)
- French: lâcher (fr), en lâcher un (to let one loose), (informal) péter (fr), (colloquial) lâcher une perle (fr), (colloquial) loufer (fr)
- German: furzen (de)
- Greek: κλάνω (el) (kláno)
- Ancient: πέρδομαι (pérdomai), ἀποπέρδομαι (apopérdomai), βδέω (bdéō)
- Hungarian: szellent (hu)
- Ido: flatuar (io)
- Indonesian: buang angin, buang gas
- Italian: mollarne una
- Japanese: おならをする (おならをする, onara o suru), 屁をひる (へをひる, he o hiru)
- Korean: 방귀뀌다 (banggwikkwida)
- Latin: ventum ēmittō, pēdō
- Macedonian: пу́ва (púva)
- Maori: keho, hengo, hemo, hemo te tou, patero (loudly), pāterotero (repeatedly and loudly), tē, pīhau (quietly), pīhauhau (repeatedly and quietly)
- Middle Low German: pupen
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: унгах (mn) (ungax)
- Mongolian: ᠤᠩᠭᠤᠬᠤ (ungɣuqu)
- Ottoman Turkish: اوصورمق (osurmak), یللنمك (yellenmek)
- Polish: puszczać gazy impf, puścić gazy pf, psuć powietrze impf, zepsuć powietrze pf (polute the air)
- Portuguese: soltar gases
- Russian: пу́кать (ru) impf (púkatʹ), пу́кнуть (ru) pf (púknutʹ), испуска́ть га́зы impf (ispuskátʹ gázy), испусти́ть га́зы pf (ispustítʹ gázy)
- Sanskrit: पर्दते (sa) (pardate)
- Spanish: peer (es), peerse (es)
- Turkish: yellenmek (tr)
- Welsh: taro rhech
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