farter
noun
farter is a noun meaning “Someone or something that farts” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-A-R-T-E-R, and it appears about once in every 32 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of farter is farters.
What does farter mean?
noun
- 1
Someone or something that farts.
- 2
One who ambles along slowly.
The drive took forty minutes, stuck behind those farters from the backwoods.
- 3
AustraliainformalA bed or sleeping bag
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce farter?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-farter.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of farter
- farters plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is farter?
Farter appears about once in every 32 million words in written English, the 173,967th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Farter in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense one who farts:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | péteur, péteuse |
| German | Furzer, Furzerin |
| Portuguese | peidorreiro, peidorreira, peidão, peidona |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does farter come from?
From Middle English farter, fartare, fertere, equivalent to fart + -er (agent noun suffix), or, for a bed or sleeping bag, + -er (patient suffix). Cognate with German Furzer (“farter”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).