To suddenly release gas from your stomach through your mouth with a sound, often involuntarily after eating or drinking.
Created in the 1930s as onomatopoeia—the word literally imitates the sound of the action. It's a modern coinage that replaced the more formal 'eructation' in everyday English.
Burp is hilarious as a word because it was literally invented to sound like itself—unlike ancient words with mysterious origins, we know exactly when 'burp' was created because someone in the 1930s decided we needed a funny word that sounded like what it means.
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