Pronounced: AS-uh-nuhns, noun
Notes: I have run across this word, but I didn’t know the meaning of it
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The word borborgymus is “intestinal rumbling caused by moving gas”
First usage
Our word came into English in the early 1700s
Background / Comments
A more common expression used instead of our word is “stomach rumbling”. Our word came from New Latin, which came from the Greek verb borboryzein (to rumble). It is thought that the Greeks created this word to imitate the digestive noises made by a stomach.
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