"whoopee cushion" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: whoopee cushions [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} whoopee cushion (plural whoopee cushions)
  1. An inflatable bag containing a valve at its neck that retains the air in the bag until pressure is put on it (usually by someone unintentionally sitting on it after it has been placed on a chair by someone else as a practical joke), when the air is expelled with a sound similar to that of someone farting (breaking wind). Wikipedia link: whoopee cushion Categories (topical): Comedy Translations (inflatable bag used as practical joke): 放屁坐墊 (Chinese Mandarin), 放屁坐垫 (fàngpì zuòdiàn) (Chinese Mandarin), 放屁墊 (Chinese Mandarin), 放屁垫 (fàngpìdiàn) (Chinese Mandarin), furzokuseno (Esperanto), peerukott (Estonian), pierutyyny (Finnish), coussin péteur [masculine] (French), Furzkissen [neuter] (German), Pupskissen [neuter] (German), ブーブークッション (būbū kusshon) (Japanese), prompepute [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), prompepute [feminine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), поду́шка-перду́шка (podúška-perdúška) [feminine] (Russian), pruttkudde [common-gender] (Swedish)

Inflected forms

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