Meaning of borborygm | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A gurgling or rumbling noise produced by gas in the bowels.
   rare
2. A gurgling or rumbling.
   figuratively

Examples

“Borborygm, a rumbling Noiſe in the Guts.”

“Should the dose of bark [of Cinchona trees] be too strong, or its use⟳ be too long continued, or finally, the digestive canal, or any other organ be in a state of inflammation, all the phenomena we have⟳ just mentioned become⟳ more intense and all the symptoms of phlegmasia are aggravated. Uneasiness and dry heat are felt at the epigastric region; nausea, borborygm, vomiting or alvine evacuations take⟳ place⟳; […]”

“Persons, who are much subject to worms in these countries, are generally of a pale complexion, with a bluish circle round the eyes; […] and there are various signs of irritation of the digestive tube, with itching at the nose and anus; headache; foul breath and tongue; irregular and sometimes canine appetite, nausea, hiccup, borborygmi, tenesmus, diarrhœa, and constipation.”

“"You've been drinking too much, that's your trouble⟳. Come⟳ on, we're going to bed." Enderby, artist to the end⟳, made a harrowing borborygm, just like⟳ old times. Grerrrrkhrapshhhhh.”

“Borborygms! Borborygms! / Are there also some in the organs of thought, / That one does not hear⟳, through the thickness of the cranium? / In any case, here are some poems in their image. [Translation of a poem by Valery Larbaud.]”

“[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.”

“When the promised state of affairs failed to materialize, the specifically communist claim⟳ of authority was rendered void, and it was clumsily and awkwardly replaced by Brezhnevite borborygms of the status quo.”

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