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borborygms

borborygms is the plural of borborygm.

Meaning of borborygm

Noun

borborygm (plural borborygms or borborygmi)

  1. (rare) A gurgling or rumbling noise produced by gas in the bowels.
    • Borborygm, a rumbling Noiſe in the Guts.[1707, “Borborygm”, in Glossographia Anglicana Nova: Or, A Dictionary, Interpreting such Hard Words of Whatever Language, as are at Present Used in the English Tongue, with Their Etymologies...
    Synonyms:
    borborygmus
  2. (figuratively) A gurgling or rumbling.
    • [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.1997, David Solway, “Never on Sontag”, in Random Walks: Essays in Elective Criticism, Montreal, Que.; Kingston, Ont.: McGill-Queen's University Press, →ISBN, part 1, page 6

Questions about borborygms

What is borborygms the plural of?
Borborygms is the plural of borborygm.

Words near borborygms in the dictionary

  1. Borborite
  2. Borborites
  3. borborygm
  4. borborygmi
  5. borborygmic
  6. borborygms
  7. borborygmus
  8. borborygmy
  9. Borca
  10. borcarite
  11. Borchard

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