Emily Dickinson Lexicon

FLAT'U-LENT, a. [L. flatulentus, flatus, from flo, to blow.]

1. Windy; affected with air generated in the stomach and intestines.
2. Turgid with air; windy; as, a flatulent tumor. Quincy.
3. Generating or apt to generate wind in the stomach. Pease are a flatulent vegetable. Arbuthnot.
4. Empty; vain; big without substance or reality; puffy; as, a flatulent writer; flatulent vanity. Dryden. Glanville.