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By the early twentieth century, the word " fart " had come to be considered rather vulgar in most English-speaking cultures.

While not one of George Carlin's original seven dirty words, he noted in a later routine that the word fart, ought to be added to " the list " of words that were not acceptable ( for broadcast ) in any context ( which have non-offensive meanings ), and described television as ( then ) a " fart-free zone ".

Thomas Wolfe had the phrase ' a fizzing and sulphuric fart ' cut out of his 1929 work Look Homeward, Angel by his publisher.

Ernest Hemingway, who had the same publisher, accepted the principle that fart could be cut, on the grounds that no one should use words only to shock.

The hippie movement in the 1970s saw a new definition develop, with the use of fart as a personal noun, to describe a ' detestable person, or someone of small stature or limited mental capacity ', gaining wider and more open usage as a result.