burping

Stomach air escaping

Burping is releasing gas from the stomach through the mouth, producing a characteristic sound.

The verb burp covers both the involuntary act and the deliberate inducement: The baby needs to be burped after feeding.

A burp is the sound or instance itself.

Belching is the more formal term for the same thing.

physiology

belch

Expel stomach gas orally

diaphragm · sphincter · gastric · swallowing · digestion · regurgitation · peristalsis · gas · bloating · indigestion

sound

belch

Expel stomach gas orally

noise · audible · resonance · vibration · loud · echo · acoustic · squelch · eruption · blast

etiquette

rude

Offensively ill-mannered

embarrassment · social · taboo · polite · crude · inappropriate · apology · faux pas · public · suppression

infant

feeding

Giving food to

colic · spit-up · patting · newborn · baby · winding · nursing · pediatric · tummy · air bubbles

Categories
Opposites
bodily gas direction

burpingfarting

Emitting digestive gas

flatulence · passing gas · breaking wind · tooting · cutting the cheese

gas movement direction

burpingswallowing

Ingesting via throat muscles

inhaling · gulping · ingesting · breathing in · eating

digestive state

burpingsuppressing

Forcibly restraining or inhibiting

stifling

Family

burp, belching, burped, burps, burpy

Familiarity
Top 20,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G