borborygmic

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adjective

Of, pertaining to, or resembling borborygmus; rumbling.

Scrabble 23

Meanings

adjectiveborborygmic (comparative more borborygmic, superlative most borborygmic)

comparative more borborygmic · superlative most borborygmic

  1. Of, pertaining to, or resembling borborygmus; rumbling.

    They were flapping their ears, moving their great stamp-like feet up and down, grinding their teeth, slobbering with their mouths, making borborygmic gurgles and rumbles in their dinosaurian-like bodies, or throwing up their trunks or their tails.

    1922 April, Cuthbert Christy, “The African Elephant, Part II”, in Journal of the African Society, volume XXI, number LXXXIII, Macmillan and co., page 194
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    They went down, stepping carefully as though in an unfamiliar place, though all of them were familiar with it, it was only The Train with its caves and dens, its mad signs pointing in contradictory directions, no help for the lost, and its seep of inky water and far-off borborygmic rumbles.

    1983 [1981], John Crowley, “The Fairies' Parliment”, in Little, Big, Bantam Books, →ISBN, pages 574–575

Origin

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