burpy

American  

[bur-pee] / ˈbɜr pi /

adjective

Informal.

burpier, burpiest

1. belching, tending to belch, or feeling like belching.

   Carbonated beverages make me burpy.

2. causing one to belch.

   burpy foods.

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Usage

What does burpy mean? To feel burpy is to feel like you have to burp, especially a lot. To be burpy is to be burping a lot.Technically speaking, a burp is the often noisy instance of stomach gas being released through the mouth. It often happens after you eat or especially after you drink a bubbly drink like soda. Burp can also be used as a verb meaning to release gas in such a way.Burpy is a very informal word. It’s typically used to describe the feeling of needing to burp, especially more than usual, or to describe yourself as having this feeling. However, it’s much more common to express this in other ways, such as describing yourself as gassy or just saying that what you ate is making you burp a lot.Burpy can also be used to describe things that cause you to burp a lot, such as carbonated drinks, but this sense of the word is even less commonly used.Burpy should not be confused with the noun burpee, which can refer to a kind of exercise or a cloth place over the shoulder when burping a baby (also called a burp cloth).Example: I always feel super burpy after eating fast food.

Other Word Forms

• burpiness noun

Etymology

Origin of burpy

burp + -y ¹

Example Sentences

It was all so arresting that the journalist spent much of the time staring at the ornately decorated ballroom carpet to conceal her eye rolling, while trying to inhibit her natural response to stress whereby, she writes, “My throat, charmingly, starts to make a kind of burpy noise.”

From Los Angeles Times

Of all the love stories that peak TV has thrown at us in the modern era, “Catastrophe” was usually the one that felt most genuine, replete with the burpy, bloaty, leaky details of midlife intimacy.

From Washington Post

The one’s you’ve heard about on a national level are Uber for rides, or if you live in Austin like me, Burpy for groceries or Favor for, well, any favor like picking up things at a restaurant or at nearly any store.

From Forbes

But Radiohole aims for the equivalent of a double-six-pack buzz: a jokey, sloppy, burpy state of mind.

From New York Times

And who can for get Siday's burpy little tango, beedle-deedle-beep-bop, doo-beedle-beep-bop, which is scored to the rhythmic bubbling percolator in the Maxwell House coffee commercial.

From Time Magazine Archive