? Obs. exc. in Lat. form borborygmus. Med. [ultimately ad. Gr. βορβορυγμός, f. βορβορύζ-ειν to have a rumbling in the bowels. In 16th c. F. borborygme (Cotgr. -igme).]
1719. Glossogr. Nova, Borborygm, a rumbling Noise in the Guts.
1794–6. E. Darwin, Zoon. (1801), II. 530. Hence the borborigmi, or rumbling of the bowels.
1880. Beale, Slight Ailm., 97. Borborygmi … are a serious annoyance.
