Other forms: burping, burps, burped
To burp is to let air out of the stomach through the mouth noisily. Burp loudly, burp the baby, a loud burp.
Burping a baby means holding it upright and patting its back to bring up swallowed air, which is standard practice after feeding. In adults the politeness rules vary sharply by culture — in some places a burp after a meal is a compliment and in Britain it is not. Note belch, which is the older and more formal word; and that burp is American in origin and imitative.
1verbburpTo let air out of the stomach through the mouth noisily.
“He drank his cola too fast and burped loudly at the table.”
2nounsoundSuch a sound.
“The whole class laughed at the loud burp from the back row.”
3verbwindTo pat or rub a baby's back to help it bring up air it has swallowed.
“Burp the baby halfway through the bottle and again at the end.”
The word is American, first recorded in the twentieth century, and imitative of the sound. Belch is the older English word and goes back to Old English.
Originally from American English, of imitative of the sound origin.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in Sounds & Noises