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the body's most honest critic, reviewing your dinner choices out loud
means To expel gas from the bowels through the anus, often audibly and to general embarrassment.
from One of English's oldest and earthiest words, descending from Old English 'feortan' and traceable back to a Proto-Indo-European root '*perd-', which already meant exactly what it means now. Cousins echo across the family tree — Greek 'perdesthai', Sanskrit 'pardate', and German 'furzen' — meaning humans have been naming this particular sound, in remarkably similar syllables, for thousands of years. Few words are this ancient and this unchanged: a small, eternal trumpet of continuity.
- speed
- travels up to 10 feet per second
- flammable
- methane and hydrogen make it genuinely ignitable
- daily count
- average human passes gas 14 times daily
- odor source
- sulfur compounds, not the gas volume itself
- swallowed air
- most of it is air you gulped down
methane emissions from cattle — livestock produces 14-18% of global greenhouse gas emissions
termite flatulence — termites produce more methane than all cattle combined
the great stork — a bird known for explosive digestive sounds in european folklore