broken wind
Americannoun
noun
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Other Word Forms
- broken-winded adjective
Etymology
Origin of broken wind
First recorded in 1745–55
Example Sentences
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Video footage showing the devastation across Iowa depicted flattened buildings, overturned cars and broken wind turbines.
From BBC
Next door in a poorer house, there is a child's broken wind chime.
From The Guardian
A broken wind pump creaks, and a forgotten path runs nowhere into brambles.
From The Guardian
Horses fed on concentrated aliment are liable to various disorders, originating from diseased action of the stomach and liver, broken wind, staggers, blindness, &c.
From Project Gutenberg
All those affections, distinguished in the English veterinary works as pneumonia or inflammation of the lungs, chronic cough, thick and broken wind, consumption, &c., are popularly designated as heaves.
From Project Gutenberg
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