tummy rumble
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4.4
- noun
- /ˈtʌmi ˈrʌmbl/
- Informal
:
rugido de estómago
- As the movie played on, I could hear a soft tummy rumble from the hungry child next to me.
Examples
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Well, let's not just sit here with our tummies rumbling.
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So about two hours goes by, I'm sitting at my desk and I felt my tummy rumble in that familiar way.
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I heard a tummy rumble during the quiet meeting, which made everyone laugh.
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After skipping breakfast, I felt my stomach growl with a loud tummy rumble.
Synonyms
138
3.4
A low angry sound animals make to warn people
76
1.6
A low, deep sound an animal makes to warn or show anger
29
3.1
A low, continuous sound you can feel
10
3.5
A bubbling sound like water moving in a bottle
2
2.7
A long low dull sound like distant thunder
Antonyms
How Loud
- Informal
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4.4
10
3.5
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a low, growling noise made by the stomach' is directly and transparently derivable from combining 'tummy' (belly) with 'rumble' (a low, resonant sound); the phrase straightforwardly labels the sound produced by the tummy. This compositional pattern is common cross-linguistically (e.g. 'stomach growl'), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Tummy rumble comes from the real sound your tummy makes: a low rumble when it is empty. So it means 'a stomach noise that often shows hunger'.