According to Green’s, this phrase for farting relates to ”the pronounced odor of certain cheeses,” and the Oxford English Dictionary dates oral usage back to 1959. It’s not the only cheese-related fart term, either: Perhaps you’ve asked “ Who cut the cheese?” when you’ve smelled a particularly nasty odor.

Once a term for a person who made cheese, according to Partridge's Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, cheeser has meant “a strong smelling fart” since 1811. Cheeser, Cut the Cheese, and Squeeze Cheese BafoonĪ ‘40s term for “a stench, a fart,” according to Green’s. One-Cheek SqueakĪccording to Green’s, “an instance of breaking wind.” 5. Scientists, by the way, have determined that the median weight of a fart is around 90 milliliters. This term, from the early 1900s, means “a small act of breaking wind”-in other words, a tiny toot. Green’s notes that this is “generally a children’s usage,” but it was “popularized on BBC TV’s 1980s comedy The Young Ones.” 3. Bottom Burpĭon’t call it a fart call it a bottom burp. The act of farting or belching is known as floating an air biscuit, by the way. Air BiscuitĪccording to Green’s Dictionary of Slang, an air biscuit is “an extremely malodorous fart or belch.” The phrase dates back to the early ‘90s and originated in the south, but clearly needs to be used everywhere.

From regional terms to old-timey phrases, here are 25 ways to say fart that you should work into conversation whenever toots come up. Over the course of history, the human race has come up with many delightfully creative ways to describe the act of breaking wind.

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