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outbelch en · VERB

Etymology

From out- + belch.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To belch more or louder than.
   • He could outeat, outdrink, and outbelch any monk from Tashilhunpo to Kumbum. 1935, Gordon Bandy Enders, Edward Anthony, Nowhere Else in the World, page 102:
   • Hang him, whose verse cannot outbelch the wind, That cannot beard and brave Dan Æolus ; That, when the cloud of his invention breaks, Cannot outcrack the scarecrow thunderbolt. c. 1600, The Return From Parnassus:
   • Why, the way they tried to outbelch each other was downright disgusting. 2011, Julie Garwood, Saving Grace:
   • I don't mean he goes off to his club and says proudly, " Do you know, old man, my little woman can outbelch any cab driver in London." 1950, Benn Wolfe Levy, Clutterbuck: comedy in three acts, page 10:

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