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Definition: Burp |
BurpNoun1. A reflex that expels wind noisily from the stomach through the mouth. Verb1. Expel gas from the stomach; "In China it is polite to burp at the table". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
BURP | English | Boston Urban Redevelopment Program | Building & Civil Engineering |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: BurpSynonyms: belching (n), burping (n), eructation (n), belch (v), bubble (v), eruct (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Burp |
| English words defined with "burp": belch, bubble ♦ eruct. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Somebody burp me before I blow up (Look Who's Talking; writing credit: Amy Heckerling) | |
Movie/TV Titles | TV Burp (2002) Burp (1986) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Books |
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Music |
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Consumer Goods |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Blondie. A burp special! / Chic Young. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
 | Burp. | | Burp. |
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| "Burp" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 59.26% of the time. "Burp" is used about 27 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 59.26% | 16 | 87,710 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 22.22% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 18.52% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 27 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "burp": burp gun. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
burp | 189 | belch burp | 4 |
burp cloths | 62 | burp cameron diaz | 4 |
burp cloth | 31 | burp egg rotten | 4 |
burp sound | 24 | burp noise | 4 |
burp farts | 18 | burp design embroidery free | 4 |
burp create | 13 | burp cloth instructions | 4 |
burp clothes | 11 | burp egg | 4 |
burp pad | 10 | burp cloths pattern | 4 |
personalized burp cloths | 9 | burp wavs | 4 |
burp gun | 8 | burp female | 3 |
baby burp | 8 | burp story | 3 |
burp contest | 6 | burp castle | 2 |
baby burp cloths | 6 | burp smelly | 2 |
burp girl | 6 | burp video | 2 |
burp sulfur | 5 | burp monogram | 2 |
burp wav | 5 | burp cloths handmade | 2 |
burp rag | 4 | avril burp | 2 |
embroidered burp cloths | 4 | burp cloth embroidered | 2 |
burp cloth pattern | 4 | burp we why | 2 |
burp foul smelling | 4 | burp cloth for baby | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "burp"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | gromësij (belch). (various references) | |
Arabic | تجشؤ (eructation), تجشأ (belch, eructate, regurgitate), ساعد طفلا على التجشؤ. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | хълцане (hiccough, hiccup, sob), хълцам (hiccough, hiccup), оригване (belch, eructation), оригвам се (belch, eruct). (various references) | |
Czech | nechat odříhnout, krknutí, krknout, říhnutí (belch), říhat (belch). (various references) | |
Dutch | oprispen (belch), boeren (belch). (various references) | |
Esperanto | rukti (belch). (various references) | |
Faeroese | ropa (belch). (various references) | |
Farsi | اروغ زدن (Belch), اروغ (Belch). (various references) | |
Finnish | röyhtäys (belch), röyhtäistä (belch). (various references) | |
French | roter. (various references) | |
German | rülpsen (belch, to burp), aufstoßen (be conspicuous, belch, burping, flatulence, hit, kick open, push open, strike). (various references) | |
Greek | ρέψιμο (belch, belching, burping, eructation), ρεύομαι (belch, bring up wind, eructate, retch). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ל'"וק (belch), ל'"ק (belch, hiccup), פיח" (belch), '"וק (belch, eructation). (various references) | |
Hungarian | böfögtet, böfög (belch, eructate, to belch, to burp). (various references) | |
Indonesian | sendawa (belch, gunpowder, nitre, saltpeter), atop (belch). (various references) | |
Italian | ruttare (belch). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | けり殺す (being disheartened, belch, but, eructation, guffaw, however, losing weight, to kick to death). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | 'っぷ (belch, eructation). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | urpbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | arrotar (belch, eructate). (various references) | |
Russian | рыгать отрыжка (belch), рыгать (belch, eructate, keck, retch). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | podrigivati (belch, keck, regurgitate). (various references) | |
Spanish | eructo (belch, eructation, wind). (various references) | |
Swedish | rapning (belch), rapa (belch). (various references) | |
Turkish | geğirtmek, geğirti, geğirmek (belch, eructate), gazını çıkarmak. (various references) | |
Turkmen | gдgirmek (belch). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | ригати (belch, keck). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "burp": burped, burping, burps. (additional references) | |
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"Burp" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: barp, berp, birp, blurp, Brpo, bru, brupp, brupt, buhr, Bup, burb, burf, Burj, burm, buro, burpa, burpt, burpy, Buur, durp, gurp, murp, urp, zurp. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "burp" (pronounced ber"p) |
| 2 | -er" p | chirp, slurp, usurp. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-p-r-u" | |
-1 letter: bur, pub, pur, rub, urb. | |
-2 letters: up. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-p-r-u" | |
+1 letter: burps. | |
+2 letters: abrupt, bumper, burlap, burped, subpar, superb, upbear, upbore. | |
+3 letters: breakup, brewpub, brushup, bumpers, bumpier, burlaps, burping, pabular, perturb, plumber, puberal, puberty, replumb, subpart, upbears, upborne, upbraid. | |
+4 letters: abrupter, abruptly, bankrupt, biparous, breakups, brewpubs, brushups, bumpered, cupboard, penumbra, perturbs, plumbers, plumbery, postburn, pourable, prebound, prunable, pubertal, purblind, purebred, replumbs, republic, subgraph, subgroup, subparts, subpolar, superbad, superber, superbly, unprobed, upbearer, upbraids. | |
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