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borborygmus

n. 1 A rumbling sound made by the movement of gas in the intestines. 2 Something resembling borborygmus, taken in a figurative sense.

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Bill said, raising his voice to be heard over the loud borborygmus of his empty stomach.

The brown-haired man followed up with a hardly less subtle set of borborygmus sounds, and Talon grinned in spite of himself.

Rather like reading the Times and having the text abruptly turn to Joycean dream-gabble between one line and the next, so that a straightforward dreary account of the latest Presidential fact-finding commission’s finding of futile facts has metamorphosed into a foggy impenetrable report on old Earwicker’s borborygmi.

I said, putting a hand over my stomach in hopes of suppressing the resounding borborygmi occasioned by the sight of food.