Definition of "borborygmic" adjective comparative more borborygmic , superlative most borborygmic
Of , pertaining to , or resembling borborygmus ; rumbling . quotations examples
Quotations 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 .
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 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 .
1983 , John Crowley, “The Fairies' Parliment”, in Little, Big, Bantam Books, pages 574–575