Borborygm

Quick meaning: Borborygm is a noun meaning (medicine, physiology, rare) A gurgling or rumbling noise produced by gas in the bowels.

Meaning

(medicine, physiology, rare) A gurgling or rumbling noise produced by gas in the bowels.

More Meanings

1. (figuratively) A gurgling or rumbling.

Example Sentences

Borborygm, a rumbling Noiſe in the Guts.

"You've been drinking too much, that's your trouble. Come on, we're going to bed." Enderby, artist to the end, made a harrowing borborygm, just like old times. Grerrrrkhrapshhhhh.

When the promised state of affairs failed to materialize, the specifically communist claim of authority was rendered void, and it was clumsily and awkwardly replaced by Brezhnevite borborygms of the status quo.

[Susan] Sontag then pauses for the space of a paragraph to deliver a swift verbal kick at American fiction for its technical unadventurousness, its lack of an avant-garde, and its tendency to interpretive borborygm.

Word Forms

• borborygms
• borborygmi

Synonyms for borborygm

Depending on context, synonyms include borborygmus.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include borborygmus, borborigmus, rugitus, gurgling, gurgle, burping.

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