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I no longer have the article, but in one issue of Maledicta magazine, which specialized in bad words and phrases as well as bad euphemisms, there are 137 basic synonyms for passing gas from the nether sphincter. The magazine's publisher is out of business now, but I subscribed briefly - a few decades ago.
As is usual, you can find the old English/old German short word to correspond to the more intellectual-sounding Latin word. We still use a variant of the Latin word flatulentia for what comes out, or crepo for the action verb. Oddly enough, the Latin action verb survives in modern biology as a mechanism used by plants distributing seeds via a gas build-up in a seed pod followed by forceful expulsion of the seeds, shot-gun style; an act called crepitation when applied to people. The old English verb is feortan.
As is usual, you can find the old English/old German short word to correspond to the more intellectual-sounding Latin word. We still use a variant of the Latin word flatulentia for what comes out, or crepo for the action verb. Oddly enough, the Latin action verb survives in modern biology as a mechanism used by plants distributing seeds via a gas build-up in a seed pod followed by forceful expulsion of the seeds, shot-gun style; an act called crepitation when applied to people. The old English verb is feortan.
