borborygmo-, borborygm- +

Gross language, filthy talk.

A fear that people will hear the rumbling, gurgling, etc. in the stomach or intestines that are produced by gas in the alimentary canal and which is audible at a distance.

Some people are so afraid that others will hear these sounds that they become social phobics and avoid public gatherings or situations where others may hear them.

Rumblings or gurgling noises produced by the movements of gas in the alimentary canal, and are audible at a distance.

1. Characterized by borborygmus or rumblings.
2. A rumbling in the bowels.

Characterized by borborygi (borborygms) or rumblings of the bowels.

"Elephant hunters say that they can tell the proximity of a herd by the borborygmic noises the poor brutes emit."

"The room was very quiet, except for its borborygmic old radiator."

Bowel sounds, the gurgling, rumbling, or growling noise from the abdomen caused by the muscular contractions of peristalsis, the process that moves the contents of the stomach and intestines downward.

Peristalsis is the rippling motion of muscles in the digestive tract. In the stomach, this motion mixes food with gastric juices, turning it into a thin liquid.

Bowel sounds are normal. Their absence can indicate intestinal obstruction.

The word borborygmus has been rumbling around the English language for some 200 years. Its earliest known use in English dates back to 1796. The word arrived from New Latin, but traces its etymology back to the Greek borboryzein, "to rumble".