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ˈborborygm Med.
? Also in Lat. form. borborygmus.
[ultimately ad. Gr. βορβορυγµός, f. βορβορύζ-ειν to have a rumbling in the bowels. In 16th c. F. borborygme (Cotgr. -igme).]
See quot. 1719. Also fig. Hence borboˈrygmic a., characterized by borborygms or rumblings.
1719Glossogr. Nova, Borborygm, a rumbling Noise in the Guts. 1794–6E. Darwin Zoon. (1801) II. 530 Hence the borborigmi, or rumbling of the bowels. 1880Beale Slight Ailm. 97 Borborygmi..are a serious annoyance. 1927H. G. Wells in Sunday Express 1 May 12/4 Elephant hunters say that they can tell the proximity of a herd by the borborygmic (see dictionary) noises the poor brutes emit. 1928A. Huxley Point Counter Point xi. 170 The stertorous borborygms of the dyspeptic Carlyle! 1938Times 24 Nov. 12/3 The borborygmic note of the Arabian camel. 1959E. Fenwick Long Way Down vii. 54 The room was very quiet, except for its borborygmic old radiator. |