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The dictionary's tuxedo for a burp, because 'excuse me' needed a bigger word.
means A belch — the formal medical and literary term for air forced up noisily from the stomach.
from From Latin eructare, 'to belch out' — built from the prefix e- ('out') plus ructare, an old verb for belching that itself echoes the guttural sound it describes. English borrowed it whole in the 1600s, keeping the Latin's starch and ceremony, which is exactly why it still sounds too fancy for what it names.
- actual meaning
- formal term for belching, gas escaping upward
- etymology
- from Latin eructare, to belch out
- usage irony
- fancier word, exact same rude sound
- bonus sense
- geologists use it for volcanoes erupting gas