How to describe the two kinds of burp in English?

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Osee  #349602  Wed, 11 Apr 07 04:52 PM

Usually there are two kinds of burp. One happens with just one or two "burp" when someone is full of food. The other can happen anytime with quit a few "burps" and can not be controlled. Could you please give me two exact english words for them and also give a more precise description for each of them? Thanks a lot!

  
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nona the brit  #349604  Wed, 11 Apr 07 05:00 PM

We don't discriminate between different kinds of burp in that way.

A small burp is a burp.

A really big loud burp is a belch.

  
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Anonymous  #349612  Wed, 11 Apr 07 05:10 PM
How about the fart, how bit is that?
  
Philip  #349623  Wed, 11 Apr 07 05:22 PM
 Osee wrote:

Usually there are two kinds of burp. One happens with just one or two "burp" when someone is full of food. The other can happen anytime with quit a few "burps" and can not be controlled. Could you please give me two exact english words for them and also give a more precise description for each of them? Thanks a lot!

  Are you thinking of 'hiccough' ('hiccup'), a type of spasm?
  
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Osee  #349629  Wed, 11 Apr 07 05:31 PM

Yes, Philip. But could you describe them more precisely? Thanks a lot!

 Philip wrote:
 Osee wrote:

Usually there are two kinds of burp. One happens with just one or two "burp" when someone is full of food. The other can happen anytime with quit a few "burps" and can not be controlled. Could you please give me two exact english words for them and also give a more precise description for each of them? Thanks a lot!

  Are you thinking of 'hiccough' ('hiccup'), a type of spasm?
  
Anonymous  #349638  Wed, 11 Apr 07 05:51 PM

hi,

I guess the one's that we get after having food is called Burps, and the other ones as hickups.

regards,

sahithi.

  
Philip  #349784  Thu, 12 Apr 07 03:35 AM
 Osee wrote:

Yes, Philip. But could you describe them more precisely? Thanks a lot!

 Philip wrote:
 Osee wrote:

Usually there are two kinds of burp. One happens with just one or two "burp" when someone is full of food. The other can happen anytime with quit a few "burps" and can not be controlled. Could you please give me two exact english words for them and also give a more precise description for each of them? Thanks a lot!

  Are you thinking of 'hiccough' ('hiccup'), a type of spasm?

Try saying the word hiccup several times in a row.  I think you'll get the idea.  It's onomotopoeic.

  
Osee  #350108  Thu, 12 Apr 07 10:20 PM

I am talking about passing gas upward; you are doing that from bottom. LOL.

 Anonymous wrote:
How about the fart, how bit is that?

  
Crack  #350390  Fri, 13 Apr 07 12:03 PM

You mean:

A small burp is a burp.

A really big loud burp is a belch.

usually people will say that two kinds of words to express the 2 situation?

  
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