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Definitions: Belch |
BelchNoun1. 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". 2. Become active and spew forth lava and rocks; of volcanoes; "Vesuvius erupts once in a while". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "belch" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1593. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Literature | Belch Sir Toby Belch. A reckless, roistering, jolly knight of the Elizabethan period. (Shakespeare: Twelfth Night.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Slang in 1811 | BELCH. All sorts of beer; that liquor being apt to cause eructation. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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Synonyms: BelchSynonyms: belching (n), burping (n), eructation (n), bubble (v), burp (v), eruct (v), erupt (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Ejection | Vomit, throw up, regurgitate, spew, puke, keck, retch, heave, upchuck, chuck up, barf; belch out; cast up, bring up, be sick, get sick, worship the porcelain god. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Belch |
| English words defined with "belch": Belched ♦ Eructate. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "belch": Olivia ♦ Penthesile'a ♦ We Three. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "belch": Belk. (references) |
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Screenplays | Forget it. Not after your cousin who could belch the alphabet. (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Hearing / Printed and sold by W. Belch.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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 | Vomit; regurgitate; regurgitating; barf; be seasick; be sick; belch; bring up; disgorge; dry heave; emit; expel; gag; heave; hurl; keck; lose it; puke; regurgitate; retch; ruminate; spew; spit up; throw up; upchuck. | | Belch; . |
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Health | An occasional belch during or after meals is normal and releases gas when the stomach is full of food. However, people who belch frequently may be swallowing too much air and releasing it before the air enters the stomach. (references) | |
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| "Belch" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 67.57% of the time. "Belch" is used about 37 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) | 67.57% | 25 | 69,787 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 27.03% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 2.7% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.7% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 37 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "belch" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Belch | Last name | 300 | 28,005 |
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Expressions using "belch": belch fire ♦ belch forth ♦ belch out ♦ belch out smoke. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "belch": truck-belch. | |
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| 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 |
belch | 62 |
belch create | 10 |
belch powder | 7 |
belch toby | 5 |
belch burp | 4 |
belch girl | 4 |
belch girly | 2 |
belch female | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "belch"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | vjell (bring up, disgorge, eructate, puke, regorge, reject, spew, spue, void, vomit), shkulm (gush, jet), nxjerr (conclude, derive, discharge, discover, display, distil, distill, divulge, drag out, draw, educe, eject, elicit, emit, evolve, excrete, exhale, exhibit, exhume, expel, extract, extricate, extrude, feature, fish out, gain, generate, get off, get out, give away, give off, hatch, heave, hustle, incubate, infer, issue, lay out, leak, let off, let out, liberate, lift out, make out, move out, obtrude, out, pan out, pop, puff, pull, pull out, raise, release, rip out, rout, run against, secrete, send, spit, stick, stick out, take out, tear off, turf out, turn away, uncase, unearth, utter, vomit, whiffle), gromësij (burp). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | قذف بقوة (bang, flirt, slap), تجشو, تجشأ (burp, eructate, regurgitate), جشاء (coarseness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | оригване (burp, eructation), оригвам се (burp, eruct), бълвам (erupt, spew, throw up, vomit), изригвам (eruct, erupt, shoot out, spew, spout, spue, vomit), избухване (burst, detonation, eruption, explosion, flying, outbreak, outburst, puff). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 噫 , 嗝 (hiccup). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | chrlit (churn out, disgorge, eject, eructate, grind out, gush out, spout), říhnutí (burp), říhat (burp). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | boevse (eruct, eructate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | boeren (burp, eruct, eructate), oprispen (burp). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | rukti (burp). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | ropa (burp). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | ماننداروغ بیرون اوردن , اروغ زدن (Burp), اروغ (Burp). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | syytää (emit, heap abuse upon a person, spew), röyhtäys (burp), röyhtäistä (burp). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | roter. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | rülpsen (belching, burp, eructation, to burp), aufstoßen (be conspicuous, belching, burp, burping, eructation, flatulence, hit, kick open, push open, strike). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ρεύομαι (bring up wind, burp, eructate, retch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ל'"וק (burp), ל'"ק (burp, hiccup), פיח" (burp), '"וק (burp, eructation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | böfögés (eructation), böffenés. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | bersendawa, sendawa (burp, gunpowder, nitre, saltpeter), memuntahkan (disgorge, puke, spue, vomit), atop (burp). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | eruttare (burp, eruct, eructate, erupt, throw out). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | けり殺す (being disheartened, burp, but, eructation, guffaw, however, losing weight, to kick to death). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | 'っぷ (burp, eructation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | bruightey (belching, erupt, eruption), bruight (eructation, rift), brooightooil (debouch, flatulent, repeat, vomit, vomit as chimney smoke), briooghe. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | rap, oppstøt. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | elchbay arrotar (burp, eructation). (various references) râgâialã (belching, eructation, retching), râgâi (keck, retch), erupţie a unui vulcan (eructation). (various references) рыгать (burp, eructate, keck, retch), рвать (gather, pick, puke, rend, retch, rip, shoot the cat, tear, torn, upchuck), вырывать (avulse, excavate, pick out, pull out, rip out, tear out, wrest), изрыгать (disgorge, eructate, regorge, regurgitate, reject). (various references) brùchd (burst forth, sally). (various references) bljuvati (disgorge, puke, spue), podrignuti, podrigivati (burp, keck, regurgitate), podrigivanje (burr), izbaciti (cut out, delete, dispose, dispose of, eject, jerk, scavenge, throw, throw out, turf out, warp). (various references) eructo (burp, eruct, eructate, eructation, wind), eructación (eruct, eructate, eructation). (various references) rapa (burp). (various references) เรอ (bubble). (various references) püskürtmek (atomize, beat off, dash, pulverization, pulverize, repel, repulse, spout, spray, spray on, squirt, vaporize, vomit), geğirmek (burp, eructate), geğirme (burping, eructation), fışkırmak (blow, burst, ejaculate, erupt, flush, gush out, spout, spurt, squirt, well, well forth, well out, well up), çıkarmak (bare, blank, bring out, bruit about, deduct, delete, derive, disconnect, dislocate, dislodge, dismantle, displace, divest, doff, draw off, draw out, drive out, drop, educe, eject, elicit, eliminate, emit, enact, enucleate, evolve, exclude, excogitate, excrete, exhale, exhaust, expel, expunge, extract, extricate, extrude, exude, foot, foot up, give forth, give off, haul up, hawk, issue, let out, make out, omit, order off, order out, oust, out, pay off, present, print out, provoke, publish, pull off, put off, put out, put up, reject, remove, rest, rout out, rout up, rule out, scratch, shoot out, slip off, spew forth, spew out, spew up, spit, start, stick out, strike, strike off, strike through, strip, strip off, subtract, take, take from, take off, take out, throw off, throw out, tide over, touch off, uncase, unfix, vent, void, vomit, winkle out, wipe out, wipe up, work out, wreak), çıkarma (cancel, cancellation, deduction, dismantlement, ejection, ejectment, elimination, emission, exclusion, expulsion, extraction, extrusion, haulage, issuance, issue, omission, rejection, subtraction). (various references) gдgirmek (burp). (various references) стовп (column, pillar, pole, post, prop, pylon, staff), скаржитися (beef, complain, grumble, natter, pine, wail, yammer), ригати (burp, keck), відрижка (eructation), викидати (abort, cast away, cast up, detrude, eject, obtrude, scrap, throw out), вивергання, нити (whine, yelp), блювати (cascade, keck, puke, retch, sick up, spew, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit), погане пиво. (various references) tiếng núi lửa phun, sự bùng lửa tiếng súng, sự ợ sự phun lửa. (various references) bytheirio, brytheirio. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "belch": belched, belcher, belchers, belches, belching. (additional references) | |
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"Belch" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: baich, balach, Balch, Balcnh, Baldhu, Balech, Balkh, Balkhi, Baloch, baluch, Baluchi, bauch, Baulch, bech, Becht, belah, Belcho, belha, belic, Belk, Beloch, beltch, Benlich, berch, Beschi, bich, bilgh, Bjelica, Bjelke, Blech, bleh, bletch, Boalch, breslich, btech, Buelach, bwlch, Kelch. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "belch" (pronounced be"lkh) |
| 3 | -e" l kh | squelch, Welch, welsh. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-e-h-l" | |
-1 letter: lech. | |
-2 letters: bel, cel. | |
-3 letters: be, eh, el, he. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-c-e-h-l" | |
+1 letter: bleach, blench. | |
+2 letters: bechalk, belched, belcher, belches, blucher. | |
+3 letters: bachelor, bechalks, bechamel, beclothe, belchers, belching, blanched, blancher, blanches, bleached, bleacher, bleaches, blenched, blencher, blenches, blotched, blotches, bluchers, cashable, chasuble, chewable, childbed, chimbley. | |
+4 letters: bachelors, bechalked, bechamels, beclothed, beclothes, bellyache, benchland, blackhead, blanchers, bleachers, bleaching, blenchers, blenching, blockhead, blotchier, branchlet, butcherly, catchable, chasubles, checkable, childbeds, chimbleys, chimblies, clubhouse, coachable, crushable, cubbyhole, flashcube, hatchable, leachable, libecchio, matchable, reachable, shellback, shockable, shoeblack, teachable, teachably, touchable, watchable, whaleback. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 65 6C 63 68 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... . .-.. -.-. .... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100101 01101100 01100011 01101000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B e l c h |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0065 006C 0063 0068 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3671786974 |
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