borborygmus

[bawr-buh-rig-muhs]

noun

Physiology.

plural

borborygmi 

1. a rumbling or gurgling sound caused by the movement of gas in the intestines.

borborygmus

/ ˌbɔːbəˈrɪɡməs /

noun

1. rumbling of the stomach

Other Word Forms

• borborygmal adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of borborygmus¹

1710–20; < New Latin < Greek borborygmós intestinal rumbling

Word History and Origins

Origin of borborygmus¹

C18: from Greek

Example Sentences

"Could", like "borborygmus", is not a word you often see in the Sun and immediately makes us question the copperbottomedness of this story, since we know that Sir Alex "could" be thinking about appointing Kenny Dalglish as his No2 or conferring new legitimacy on the wearing of wigs by unabashedly appearing on sidelines next season in a tousled blond number.

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Nostalgia, which we are apt to sneer at as a doctor's name for homesickness, and to class with cachexy and borborygmus, was a power for evil in those days, and some of our finest troops were thinned out by it, notoriously the North Carolinians, whose attachment to the soil of their State was as passionate as that of any Greeks, ancient or modern, Attic or Peloponnesian.

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Borborygmus could be easily heard.

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