English

Noun

borborygm ‎(plural borborygms)

1. (medicine) A rumbling or gurgling noise produced by wind in the bowels.
   • 1963, Anthony Burgess, Inside Mr. Enderby, Part One, Chapter Three:

     'The soul,' said Sir George appropriately, 'which is a fair field for the poet's wandering, the sea whereon he sails his barque of rhyme, his mistress of whom he sings. The soul, which is the parson's Sunday concern, is the poet's daily bread.' His daily raw potato. Enderby felt a borborygm rising.

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