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I'm struggling with another of Mrs. Byrne's special words.
she gives flatulopetic as:
1) pertaining to gas production in the bowels
2) pretentious, pompous, inflated
I find this in none of the usual metasources, and it is found online almost exclusively at sites that have used Mrs. B (openly or not so) as a source.
I have no problem with flatu(s :) as a root, but whence/what of the the -(o)petic?
(I've emailed this query to uncle jheem as well; if he comes up with something I'll relay it here.)
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Tsuwm: Perhaps there is a connection between "peptic" and "flatulopetic". A speaker who's bloated with gas Is a peptic pain in dias. FlatulopeticIs a speech, diarrhetic. Like gas, we hope it will pass. Merriam-Webster Dictionary: peptic Function: adjective Etymology: Latin pepticus, from Greek peptikos, from peptos cooked, from peptein, pessein to cook, digest -- more at COOK 1 : relating to or promoting digestion : DIGESTIVE 2 : of, relating to, producing, or caused by pepsin < peptic digestion> 3 : connected with or resulting from the action of digestive juices <a peptic ulcer>
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dr. bill suggests a kinship to Brit. medical term haemopoesis = blood formation.
so flatulop(oi)etic = gas formation?
edit: -poietic
suff. [From Greek poietikos, creative]
productive; formative: galactopoietic
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> [From Greek poietikos, creative] so you're saying it's a poetic gasbag?! 
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{well, here I am replying some more to my own post(s) -- how ironic...}
jheem chimes in with:
Yes, flatus for 'blowing, gas'. But the final syllables gave me pause for thought. Could it possibly be flatulopoeic 'making gas', mixing Latin and Greek*? ...the (l)opetic part looks more Greek than Latin...
It also seems to me that flatuous (OED) is [a] perfectly good word and has the additional feature of being easily deduced.
*does the term "macaronic" apply here?
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Isn't that a moronic dance?
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Don't know who Byrne is, but...
Could this be a hifalutin tongue-in-cheek of her own coinage\ distinguishing two senses of "make" as used by a child?
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I found it in http://anotherlook.com/. It's a word for a Maaori pipe organ.
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Faldage, I think you are.
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peter (with an acute accent on the first e) is a French word meaning "to break wind". It is the origin of petard, a small bomb or firecracker, mainly used in the expression "hoist with one's own petard".
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