Following our conversation about the expression Excuse the pig, the hog’s out walking, and other phrases used as an apology or mild reprimand for eructations, there’s also More tea, vicar?, a British sardonic response to a burp or other rude...
Eileen from Chesapeake, Virginia, recalls her mother’s response whenever someone in their family burped: Excuse the pigs, the hogs went out for a walk. It’s a mild reprimand (or apology, if the speaker is the one who burped), and there...
In case you need a word for a really meaty burp — and what nine-year-old doesn’t? — 18th-century lexicographer Samuel Johnson has you covered. In his 1755 dictionary, he defines nidorosity as “eructation with the taste of undigested...