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the body's tiny standing ovation for a meal it enjoyed too fast
means To noisily release swallowed air from the stomach through the mouth, or the sound that escape makes.
from An echoic word — it's simply the noise dressed up as language, coined to sound like the act it names, much like 'gulp' or 'hiccup.' It surfaces in English around the early 20th century, an American informal cousin to the older, gentler 'belch,' which traces back to Old English 'bealcian.'
- gas source
- Mostly swallowed air, not digestion's doing
- zero-g problem
- Astronauts can't burp without vomiting in space
- loudness record
- Loudest burp rivals a chainsaw at 109 decibels
- cow trouble
- Cattle burps release vast amounts of methane
- baby ritual
- Trapped air makes infants need patting after feeding
for instance
burp suite — cybersecurity testing platform with 2+ million downloads, used by security researchers worldwide
burpless cucumber — seedless cucumber variety bred to reduce gas, popular in home gardens since the 1990s