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😮‍💨 Expelling stomach gas 🌫️ Forceful emission
belching

belching

1 5.1
A strong burst of smoke, steam, or gas coming out of something like a chimney
  • noun
  • /ˈbɛltʃɪŋ/
translation icon : expulsión
  • I looked up the street, and to my delight, one of Las Piernas's diesel-belching buses was in sight.
  • belching smoke
  • belching factories
  • belching buses

Examples

  • The loud belching of the industrial chimneys filled the air with thick smoke.

  • The bureaucrat starts off with a photograph of the industrial city, smoke belching out of pipes, workers disenfranchised.

  • Smokestacks belching smoke, the byproducts of industry, a landscape transformed by the factory model.

  • Haozous has said that the work centers on the border, represented here by a pyramid-shaped factory belching pollution that drifts both north and south.

    Academic text (2011)

  • We overtook the occasional bus belching smoke or a lorry lisping with billowing hay; we blasted through bustling towns and torpid villages.

    Fiction book (1994)

  • After drinking that soda, his constant belching made everyone laugh.

  • The factory was notorious for its belching emissions that polluted the nearby river.

Synonyms

burp
vsbelching
  • Informal
50 1.0

A noisy release of gas from the stomach through the mouth

is broader and expels gas or smoke forcefully from any inner source
eructation
vsbelching
  • Specialized
9.9

A noisy release of gas from the stomach through the mouth

is broader and expels gas or smoke forcefully from any inner source

How Forceful

eruption
4 4.3
belching
1 5.1
venting
  • Informal
16 4.3
leakage
15 3.1

Surface Forms

belching singular
belchings plural

Morphology

belching = belch (transparent) = belch + ing

The sense is a nominalization of the verb 'belch' referring to forceful expulsion; the derivation is regular and clear.

Etymology

Belching comes from the same old English root bealcian, which copied a loud pushing-out sound, so people began to use it for smoke or steam too. That's why a factory or chimney 'belches' smoke — it forces out gas or steam in a strong, noisy way.