From Middle English belchen, from Old English bielċan, from Proto-Germanic *balkijaną, *belkaną, probably ultimately of imitative origin.
Related to Dutch balken (“to bray”), Middle Low German belken (“to shout”), Low German bölken (“to shout, bark”), Old English bealċettan (“to utter, send forth”). See also English bolk, boak.
Meanings
An instance of belching; the sound that it makes.
The hotel coffee machine gurgles out an acrid belch. 2016 March 11, Jennifer Coates, “I Am A Transwoman. I Am In The Closet. I Am Not Coming Out.”, in Medium:
(obsolete) Malt liquor.
c. 1699, John Dennis, letter to Mr. Collier
Porters would no longer be drunk with Belch
gl regoldo (sound one makes when belching) · grc ἐρυγή (sound one makes when belching) · te త్రేన్పు (sound one makes when belching) · nl boer (sound one makes when belching) · cmn 飽嗝 /饱嗝 (sound one makes when belching) · ka ბოყინი (sound one makes when belching) · no rap (sound one makes when belching) · id serdawa (sound one makes when belching) · es eructo / regüeldo fuerte (sound one makes when belching) · ru рыга́ние (sound one makes when belching) · ja げっぷ (sound one makes when belching) · be адбі́ця (sound one makes when belching) · la ructus (sound one makes when belching) · pt arroto (sound one makes when belching) · ta ஏப்பம் (sound one makes when belching) · gl arrebocho (sound one makes when belching) · lt raugėjimas (sound one makes when belching) · ru отры́жка (sound one makes when belching) · be адры́жка (sound one makes when belching) · tr geğirti (sound one makes when belching) · it rutto (sound one makes when belching) · pdt Relps (sound one makes when belching) · ms sendawa (sound one makes when belching) · ko 트림 (sound one makes when belching) · pl beknięcie (sound one makes when belching) · id sendawa (sound one makes when belching) · ja 噯気 (sound one makes when belching) · fa آروغ (sound one makes when belching) · el ρέψιμο (sound one makes when belching) · es fuerte eructo / regüeldo (sound one makes when belching) · bg оригване (sound one makes when belching) · gl alroto (sound one makes when belching) · lt atsiraugmas (sound one makes when belching) · de Rülpser (sound one makes when belching) · fi röyhtäisy (sound one makes when belching) · uk відри́жка (sound one makes when belching) · ca rot (sound one makes when belching) · as উগাৰ (sound one makes when belching) · cmn 打嗝聲 /打嗝声 (sound one makes when belching) · ur ڈکار (sound one makes when belching) · uk ві́дриг (sound one makes when belching) · el ερευγμός (sound one makes when belching) · hi डकार (sound one makes when belching) · fr rot (sound one makes when belching) · cmn 飽嗝聲 /饱嗝声 (sound one makes when belching) · cs říhnutí (sound one makes when belching) · gl arroto (sound one makes when belching) · ar تَجَشُّؤ (sound one makes when belching) · fi röyhtäys (sound one makes when belching) · cmn 打嗝 (sound one makes when belching) · srn ge (sound one makes when belching)
From Middle English belchen, from Old English bielċan, from Proto-Germanic *balkijaną, *belkaną, probably ultimately of imitative origin.
Related to Dutch balken (“to bray”), Middle Low German belken (“to shout”), Low German bölken (“to shout, bark”), Old English bealċettan (“to utter, send forth”). See also English bolk, boak.
Meanings
(ambitransitive) To expel (gas) from the stomach through the mouth; especially, to do so loudly.
'Tis not a year or two shows us a man:
They are all but stomachs, and we all but food;
To eat us hungerly, and when they are full,
They belch us. c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:
She eats too fast, belches behind a cupped hand, smiles. 1980, J. M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians, Penguin, 19982, Chapter 2, p. 41:
1746, attributed to Jonathan Swift, "A Love Poem form a Physician to his Mistress," http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/14353/pg14353-images.html
When I an amorous kiss design'd,
I belch'd a hurricane of wind.
(ambitransitive) To eject or emit (something) with spasmodic force or noise.
Within the gates of hell sat Sin and Death,
In counterview within the gates, that now
Stood open wide, belching outrageous flame
Far into Chaos […]. 1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 230-33:
I sing the song of the great clean guns that belch forth death at will.
Ah, but the wailing mothers, the lifeless forms and still! 1914, Harry Kemp, I sing the Battle:
[…]beneath him sound like waves on a desert shore
The voice of slaves beneath the sun, and children bought with money,
That shiver in religious caves beneath the burning fires
Of lust, that belch incessant from the summits of the earth. 1793, William Blake, Visions of the Daughters of Albion, lines 30–33:
I grasped the cold slimy rung. My feet slithered and scrunched on stranded things. Next rung...the next and next...endless horrible rungs, hissing and smells belching from under the wharf. 1941, Emily Carr, chapter 18, in Klee Wyck:
A book entitled Emerging Indonesia has on its cover photographs of a sunrise over palm trees, bent women in coolie hats transplanting rice, a wooden bull burning at a Balinese cremation, and a liquid nitrogen plant belching black smoke into a clear, undefiled tropical sky. 1996, Clifford Geertz, After the Fact: Two Countries, Four Decades, One Anthropologist, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 141:
Thick smoke belched through the funnels of the steamship.
Vulcan this plague begot; and, like his sire,
Black clouds he belch'd, and flakes of livid fire. 1697, Virgil, “The Eighth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
cic akiilawa (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · ca rotar (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · km ភើ (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · vi ợ (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · fr éructer (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · cs říhat (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · sv rapa (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · uz o‘qchimoq (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · mnw ဒအာပ် (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · de emittieren (eject or emit) · mui bede'e' (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · gl regoldar (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · gl eructar (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · lo ເອຶ້ອມ (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · de rülpsen (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · uk відри́гувати (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · as উগাৰ মাৰ (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · ba кикереү (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · my စားချဉ့်ပြန် (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · ja 噫気する (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · sh podrigivati (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · hy ործկալ (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · gl sotelar (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · pl beknąć (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · it ruttare (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · km ខ្យល់ផាយ (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · qu hapay (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · cs krknout (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · pt arrotar (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · ms bersendawa (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · my ကြို့ (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · gl alrotar (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · fr roter (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · eo rukti (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · uk відригну́ти (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · ru отрыгну́ться (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · pl bekać (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · tr geğirmek (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · fo ropa (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · ml ഏമ്പക്കം (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · el ρεύομαι (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · mnc ᡴᡝᡴᡝᡵᡝᠮᠪᡳ (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · tl dighay (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · ja おくびする (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · gl hempiar (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · gl arrotar (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · ka დაბოყინება (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · alt кегирер (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · ru рыга́ть (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · no rape (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · nl boeren (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · la rūctō (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · ang rocettan (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · hi डकारना (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · et röhitsema (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · gl arrebochar (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · br tarlonkañ (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · be адрыгну́ць (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · hy բխկալ (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · chr ᎤᏩᎫᎴᎦ (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · ko 트림하다 (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · hu böfög (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · ru отры́гиваться (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · bg оригвам се (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · ja げっぷする (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · ru отрыгну́ть (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · be адрыга́ць (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · cmn 噯氣 /嗳气 (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · id bersendawa (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · cs krkat (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · cmn 飽嗝 /饱嗝 (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · mk ждрига (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · uk рига́ти (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · ru рыгну́ть (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · cs říhnout (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · lt raugėti (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · roa-gal beurgasser (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · cmn 嗝 (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · de in die Luft blasen (eject or emit) · sh podrignuti (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · te త్రేన్చు (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · ota ككرمك (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · ru отры́гивать (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · grc ἐρεύγομαι (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · mk подригнува (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · th เรอ (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · fa آروغ زدن (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · sl rigati (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · my လေချဉ်တက် (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · is ropa (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · sh подригивати (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · cmn 打嗝 (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · id beserdawa (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · ur ڈکارنا (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · ro râgâi (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · be рыга́ць (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · ja うっぷする (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · ar تَجَشَّأَ (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · fi röyhtäistä (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · uk відрига́ти (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · nl een boer laten (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · sh подригнути (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · az gəyirmək (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · sk rihať (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth) · da ræbe (expel gas from the stomach through the mouth)