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the sound the universe makes when it's about to ruin your day
means a continuous deep, resonant sound, like distant thunder, a hungry stomach, or heavy machinery in motion
from From 'rumble,' which surfaces in Middle English as 'romblen,' likely imitative — the word itself sounds like the low, rolling noise it names. It's a cousin of similar echoic words in Dutch ('rommelen') and German ('rummeln'), suggesting these languages all independently reached for much the same growl to capture a sound the body and the sky both make. The '-ing' simply turns the rumble into an ongoing event.
- thunder source
- distant lightning heated air, expanding faster than sound
- stomach growls
- called borborygmi, your guts shoving gas around
- earthquake warning
- deep rumbles can precede the violent shaking
- low frequency
- often felt in the chest before truly heard
- volcano tell
- magma cracking rock rumbles before eruptions
attack on titan rumbling — eren yeager activates the colossal titans beneath paradis island in the 2020 anime series
distant thunder rumbling — low-frequency sound waves from lightning 10+ miles away that vibrate buildings and ground