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English
Etymology
From borborygmus + -ic.
Adjective
borborygmic (comparative more borborygmic, superlative most borborygmic)
- Of, pertaining to, or resembling borborygmus; rumbling.
1922 April, Cuthbert Christy, “The African Elephant, Part II”, in Journal of the African Society, volume XXI, number LXXXIII, Macmillan and co., page 194:They were flapping their ears, moving their great stamp-like feet up and down, grinding their teeth, slobbering with their mouths, making borborygmic gurgles and rumbles in their dinosaurian-like bodies, or throwing up their trunks or their tails.
1983 [1981], John Crowley, “The Fairies' Parliment”, in Little, Big, Bantam Books, →ISBN, pages 574–575:They went down, stepping carefully as though in an unfamiliar place, though all of them were familiar with it, it was only The Train with its caves and dens, its mad signs pointing in contradictory directions, no help for the lost, and its seep of inky water and far-off borborygmic rumbles.