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Definition: Burping |
BurpingNoun1. A reflex that expels wind noisily from the stomach through the mouth. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: BurpingSynonyms: belch (n), belching (n), burp (n), eructation (n). (additional references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Theater & Movies | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Play | Caption |
 | Man burping. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Everyone has gas and eliminates it by burping or passing it through the rectum. (references) | |
Burping, or belching, is the way most swallowed air--which contains nitrogen, oxygen, and carbon dioxide--leaves the stomach. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Burping" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 91.67% of the time. "Burping" is used about 12 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 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 91.67% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Noun (singular) | 8.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 12 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
burping | 88 | burping woman | 3 |
excessive burping | 29 | burping infant | 3 |
baby burping | 24 | burping cameron diaz | 2 |
girl burping | 11 | burping female video | 2 |
burping sound | 8 | burping problem | 2 |
constant burping | 6 | burping chronic | 2 |
burping pregnancy | 6 | burping symptom | 2 |
burping cause | 5 | belching and burping | 2 |
indigestion and burping | 4 | burping fridge | 2 |
baby burping pad | 4 | burping chest pain | 2 |
burping contest | 4 | burping dog | 2 |
gas with burping | 3 | baby burping stop when | 2 |
burping farting girl | 2 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "burping"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | kortvarig strømningsinversion. (various references) | |
Finnish | lyhytaikainen virtaushäiriö. (various references) | |
French | renvoi (burp). (various references) | |
German | rülpsend (belching). (various references) | |
Greek | ρέψιμο (belch, belching, burp, eructation), ανάστροφη ροή λόγω αστάθειας. (various references) | |
Italian | inversione di corrente. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | urpingbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | solução (denouement, key, liquor, remedy, resort, solution). (various references) | |
Spanish | inversión de la corriente. (various references) | |
Turkish | geğirme (belch, eructation). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Burping" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bokpyin, buring, Buringh, bursing, ubring. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "burping" (pronounced ber"ping) |
| 4 | -er" p i ng | chirping, usurping. |
| 3 | -p i ng | antidumping, aping, backslapping, beeping, bleeping, bookkeeping, bumping, camping, capping, carping, Chipping, chomping, chopping, clamping, clapping, clipping, clumping, coping, copping, cramping, creeping, crimping, cropping, damping, developing, dipping, draping, dripping, drooping, dropping, dumping, eavesdropping, enveloping, equipping, escaping, flapping, flipping, flopping, galloping, gaping, gasping, gossiping, grasping, griping, gripping, groping, grouping, gulping, handicapping, harping, heaping, helping, hoping, hopping, housekeeping, hyping, jumping, keeping, kidnaping, kidnapping, lamping, landscaping, lapping, leaping, limping, lopping, lumping, mapping, moping, mopping, napping, nipping, outstripping, overlapping, overstepping, peacekeeping, peeping, pimping, piping, popping, prepping, propping, pulping, pumping, ramping, raping, rapping, reaping, recapping, recouping, regrouping, reshaping, revamping, ripping, romping, roping, safekeeping, sapping, scalping, scooping, scoping, scraping, scrapping, scrimping, seeping, shaping, shipping, shopping, sidestepping, sipping, skimping, skipping, slapping, sleeping, slipping, sloping, slumping, snapping, sniping, snooping, sopping, stamping, stepping, stereotyping, stomping, stooping, stopping, strapping, stripping, stumping, swamping, swapping, sweeping, swiping, swooping, tamping, taping, tapping, thumping, tipping, topping, tramping, trapping, tripping, trooping, typing, unwrapping, upping, videotaping, walloping, Wapping, warping, weeping, whipping, whooping, whopping, wiping, Wiretapping, worshipping, wrapping, zapping, zipping. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-g-i-n-p-r-u" | |
-2 letters: bring, bruin, burin, purin, ruing, unrig, unrip. | |
-3 letters: brig, brin, bung, burg, burn, burp, girn, grin, grip, grub, ping, pirn, prig, pung, puri, ring, ruin, rung. | |
-4 letters: big, bin, bug, bun, bur, gib, gin, gip, gnu, gun, nib, nip, nub, pig, pin, piu, pub, pug, pun, pur, rib, rig, rin, rip, rub, rug. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-g-i-n-p-r-u" | |
+2 letters: bumpering, upbearing. | |
+3 letters: perturbing, replumbing, upbraiding, upbringing. | |
+4 letters: bankrupting, parbuckling, upbringings. | |
+5 letters: blueprinting, prenumbering, republishing. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Sounds | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Bibliography |
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