flatuous (flatuus)

[= F. flatueux = Sp. flatuoso, flatoso = Pg. flatoso = It. flatuoso, Sir Dia . I am very angry. Com. Do not suffer, though, That flatuous windy choler of your heart To move the clapper of your understanding. B. Jonson, Magnet ick Lady, iii. 3. What if some flatt'ring blast Of flatuous honour should perchance be there, And whisper in thine ear? Quarles , Emblems, ii. 10. flatuous ne (flat'u-us-nes), n. Tendency to produce flatulence. I confe e I wonder at it my self, that I should turne Poet: I can impute it to nothing but the flatuousne e of our diet. N. Ward, Simple Cobler, p. 90. [