Definition of a Barking Spider

Barking Spider    

noun

• an imaginary creature to blame flatulence on. Appears in Kurt Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions (1973).

  Speaker: Did you just fart?
  
  Response: No, there must be a Barking Spider in here.

  • See more words with the same meaning: mythical people, creatures, and conditions (list of).
  • See more words with the same meaning: to flatulate, fart, pass gas.

  Last edited on Nov 07 1999. Submitted by Mark L. from Newburyport, MA, USA on Nov 07 1999.

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Other terms relating to 'mythical people, creatures, and conditions (list of)':
epizootics of the blowhole	Definitions include: a metaphorical disease where one speaks at length about something one knows nothing about.
Cootie Brown	Definitions include: a fictitious person to compare a drunk person to.
mouse on a motorcycle	Definitions include: something used to divert blame for flatulence.
Aunt Flo and cousin Red	Definitions include: menstrual period.
rageahol	Definitions include: a metaphorical substance to which permanently-angry people are addicted to.
boneless brown trout	Definitions include: feces.
Aunt Flo	Definitions include: menstrual period.
beer goggles	Definitions include: a metaphorical set of glasses ("goggles") that one wears after drinking enough alcohol that one's definition of "attractive" declines substantially.
cooties	Definitions include: a fictional disease that afflicts prepubescent children.
AWD	Definitions include: acronym for "attention whore disorder".
California barking spider	Definitions include: a fart.
rickett	Definitions include: a mysterious creature that causes general mischief.
Omega Mu	Definitions include: a fictitious sorority with overweight members.
Little Man syndrome	Definitions include: an alleged combination of symptoms said to affect short men.
cousin Red	Definitions include: see Aunt Flo and cousin Red.
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Other terms relating to 'to flatulate, fart, pass gas':
let one rip	Definitions include: to flatulate; "fart"; "pass gas".
stinker	Definitions include: particularly smelly flatulence.
kwif	Definitions include: misspelling / alternate spelling of "queef".
break wind	Definitions include: to flatulate.
pass wind	Definitions include: To fart or flatulate.
PDPs	Definitions include: acronym of "post-digestive particulates."
*ss blast	Definitions include: instance of flatulence.
rip a juicy one	Definitions include: to flatulate.
sharts, the	Definitions include: a condition marked by repeated attempts at only flatulence, but in which there is an an anal release of air and non-air (whether liquid or solid.)
mouse on a motorcycle	Definitions include: something used to divert blame for flatulence.
cupcake	Definitions include: to talk with a person one is attracted to; "flirt", "spit game".
beef	Definitions include: a problem or grudge with someone.
poof	Definitions include: to fart.
vart	Definitions include: to release air from the vagina; "fart vaginally".
bake brownies	Definitions include: to flatulate.
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Slang terms with the same root words

Other terms relating to 'bark':
all bark and no bite	Definitions include: to talk a lot but never take action.
Arkansas barking spider	Definitions include: a metaphorical creature on which flatulence ("farts") can be blamed.
bark at the ants	Definitions include: to vomit outdoors.
barking	Definitions include: crazy.
bark up the wrong tree	Definitions include: to seek something from the wrong person or place.
California barking spider	Definitions include: a fart.
Other terms relating to 'spider':
Arkansas barking spider	Definitions include: a metaphorical creature on which flatulence ("farts") can be blamed.
brown spider	Definitions include: anus.
California barking spider	Definitions include: a fart.
spider	Definitions include: a male.
spider sense	Definitions include: a premonition.

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