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n. - A rumbling sound as gas moves in the intestine

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  • He said he'd always liked the word borborygmus and looked at me expectantly.
  • I want to apologize for my "borborygmus" and be called out for my "fribbling."
  • On the way up, we began to develop that borborygmus-inducing Hearty Appetite that comes from sitting in a car for two hours, and so we began casting about for a place to...
  • 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...
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  • This word was used in the 2006 Scripps National Spelling Bee finals.
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