borborygmn.
? Also in Latin form.
See quot. 1719. Also figurative.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sounds heard in body > [noun] > rumbling sound in bowels
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of stomach > [noun] > noise caused by stomach disorders
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1719 Glossographia Anglicana Nova (ed. 2) Borborygm, a rumbling Noise in the Guts.
1794–6 E. Darwin Zoonomia (1801) II. 530 Hence the borborigmi, or rumbling of the bowels.
1880 L. S. Beale Slight Ailm. 97 Borborygmi..are a serious annoyance.
1928 A. Huxley Point Counter Point xi. 170 The stertorous borborygms of the dyspeptic Carlyle!
Derivatives
borboˈrygmic adj. characterized by borborygms or rumblings.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sounds heard in body > [adjective] > relating to rumbling in bowels
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of stomach > [adjective] > noise caused by stomach disorders
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1927 H. 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.
1938 Times 24 Nov. 12/3 The borborygmic note of the Arabian camel.
1959 ‘E. Fenwick’ Long Way Down vii. 54 The room was very quiet, except for its borborygmic old radiator.
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