Borborygmus

Today’s Best Word Ever is borborygmus: intestinal rumbling caused by moving gas.

An uncomfortable (oops!) seventeenth-century New Latin noun, from the Greek borborygmos, from (excuse me) borboryzein, “to have a rumbling in the bowels.”

 
Whoops! After the beans, the borborygmus…

 

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