fart
noun
a release of intestinal gas through the anus; a flatus.
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
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It wasn’t that the fish were farting, Owen remembered now.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
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