0 present participle of belch
1 to allow air from the stomach to come out noisily through the mouth:
Among the urban elites, good manners increasingly outlawed belching, breaking wind and other bodily noises in the presence of others.
Covering one's mouth when yawning, coughing or belching was common.
The consequence is that you have this higgledy-piggledy development where you have working-class dwellings practically up against belching chimneys, smoke, dirt and such things.
The fire brigade always makes marvellous television, with big red fire engines, flashing lights, great turntable ladders, belching hoses, people running about, smoke and fire.
They said that this frightful contraption was wheeled aboard belching coal dust and smoke over everything and was most inefficient.
You cannot go on belching out tons of toxic substances and gases, some of which produce acids, year after year without consequences.
Above it stood a vast chimney belching smoke.
Their owners do not wish to be embarrassed by seeing clouds of black or blue smoke belching out of the engines.
