This is where we remind you of our descriptivist bent if enough people use a word with a definite meaning for a prolonged period we are honor-bound to consider including that word in our dictionary.ĭefinition - "An act of breaking wind a fart or series of farts" ( Oxford English Dictionary) The closest that farting-crackers has ever come to legitimacy, at least insofar as inclusion in a general dictionary qualifies as such, is when it appeared in several editions of Nathan Bailey’s dictionary in the middle of the 18th century. All of these titles, while major works in the history of lexicography, deal with slang and various other forms of non-standard language. This now-obscure word for breeches appears first in the 1699 A Dictionary of the Canting Crew, and thereafter in a number of other specialized lexicons, such as the 1785 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, and James Caulfield’s 1793 work, Blackguardiana. The spitting, the coughing, the laughter, the neesing, the farting, dauncing, noise of the musique, and her masculine, and lowd commanding, and vrging the whole family, makes him thinke he has married a furie.īen Johnson, The Works of Benjamin Johnson, 1616ĭefinition - breeches ("short pants covering the hips and thighs and fitting snugly at the lower edges at or just below the knee")įarting-crackers, we regret to inform you, never really caught on. Thomas Dekker, The Second Part of the Honest Whore, 1630 It is not currently considered polite, either in lexical form or in action we provide a usage note which states " often vulgar," while the majestic Oxford English Dictionary says it is "not now in decent use." That being said, the word has been used by many of our finer scribes (and almost all of our four-year-olds) over the years.Ī pox a de Horses nose, he is a lowsy rascally fellow, when I came to gird his belly, his scuruy guts rumbled, di Horse farted in my face, and dow knowest, an Irishman cannot abide a fart. It existed first as a verb, in use since the 13th century, and as a noun from the 15th. We sure hope that you will use adjectives that start with I positive to help build people up and make the world a more genuinely happy place for all of us.The humble fart crept, like a silent yet obtrusive guest, into our vocabulary long ago. But words and language are truly a double-edged sword and can be used to hurt others.
These descriptive adjectives beginning with I help us to color our world and describe it more beautifully and point out someone’s positive characteristics. I, which may be the loneliest letter, still has so much to give us in order to facilitate communication and understanding.
I, the letter that, all by itself, describes an entire person and their very existence is certainly a special one.