“Ooooh mair tea vicar? Ah hope it wisni Elsie’s neep sconettes’ that garred ye pump sae fell.”
Translate:
pump: break wind, fart.
“Ooooh more tea vicar? I do hope it was not Elsie’s small turnip scones that made you pass wind so fiercely.”
![[pump spelled out in the phonetic alphabet.]](/comics/phonetics/pumpph.gif){kind=small}
The Scottish Word: pump with its definition and its meaning illustrated and captioned with the word used in context in the Scots language and in English.
Rifted is the Scottish word for fart.
I’d tend to agree with you as in bursting the cheeks asunder and tearing a hole in the breeks whereas a pump might be silent. But the SND lists it as; to belch or eructate.