flative

Producing farts; flatulent.

Adjective

  1. Producing farts; flatulent.
    • Artichokes[…]Please the taste: prouoke vrine and Venus: remoue flatiue humours: open obstructions: heate the entralls. - 1599, Henry Butts, Dyets dry dinner:
    • Eat not too many of those apples, they be very flative. - 1607, Antony Brewer, Lingua:
    • What though [cabbage is] windy, Pepper will reform that tempest, and appease its flative storm. - 1659, Edmund Gayton, “XXX. Of Herbs and Plants”, in The art of longevity, page 63:

Origin

From the Latin flātīvus, from flō (“to blow”).

Forms

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