VENTOSITOUS ADJ. affected with flatulence; full of wind ...1616 obs. rare ETYMOLOGY from ventosity (n. flatulency) + -itous, from Old French ventosité (= Italian ventosità , Provençal ventositat , Spanish -idad , Portuguese idade ), from Latin ventōsitas (windiness, flatulency, conceit) from ventōsus (ventose adj. flatulent) FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1616 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...CAES. What's that? CRIS. ---Puffy---inflate---turgidous---ventositous. HORA. Barmy froth, puffy, inflate, turgidous, and ventositous are come vp. TIBV. O, terrible, windie wordes! GALL. A signe of a windie braine. CRIS. O ---oblatrant---furibund---fatuate---strentuous--- HORA. Here's a deale: oblatrant, furibund, fatuate, strenuous. CAES. Now, all's come vp, I trow. What a tumult hee had in his belly!..." From: Poetaster, Or His Arraignement. A Comicall Satyre. - Ben Jonson
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