Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. someone who breaks wind (in a noticeable and even ostentatious manner).

a.1661		‘Arsy Versy’ in Rump Poems and Songs (1662) ii 48: It endured the first heat, and proved no starter [...] And whisk’d the Tayl like a terrible Farter.
1664		C. Cotton Virgil Travestie (1765) Bk I 9: He was, in fine, the loud’st of Farters.
1909		Joyce letter 9 Dec. to Nora Barnacle, in Ellman Sel. Letters (1975) 186: My little naked fucker, my naughty wriggling little frigger, my sweet dirty little farter.
c.1918		‘O Dear What Can the Matter Be’ in Bold (1979) 154: The third whore was Miss Penelope Carter / She was renowned as the world’s greatest farter.
1938–48		in G. Legman Limerick (1953) 152: There was a young fellow from Sparta / A really magnificent farter.
1941		in G. Legman Limerick (1953) 146: There was a young girl of La Plata / Who was widely renowned as a farter.
1963		C. Wood ‘John Thomas’ in Cockade (1965) Act I: A quartet of foul farters and to my astonishment, a loud compulsive breather.
1971		F.J. Hardy Outcasts of Foolgarah (1975) 204: I was going to tell you my latest yarn ‘the fantastic farter from Finnigan’s Falls’.
1989		(con. 1960s) M. Kingston Tripmaster Monkey 235: Was Ngok Fei a farter?
2006		Wikipedia 🌐 A Professional farter is a performer who receives payment for expelling flatus in an amusing and/or musical manner. They may also be referred to as Flatulists or Fartistes.

2. anus.

1927–41		in G. Legman Limerick (1953) 3: There was a young fellow named Charteris / Put his hand where his young lady’s garter is. / Said she, ‘I don’t mind, / And up higher you’ll find / The place where my fucker and farter is.’.
2009		T. Black Gutted 57: I’ve just escaped Deliverance territory and I’m mightily relieved not to have a length of hillbilly parked in my farter.

3. see fart-sack under fart n.