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  • noun Plural form of eructation.

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Examples

  • If we could have more of this pecksniffian garble it enhance the whiff of sanctimony that rises from these eructations like fumes from a distant latrine.

    Notes from the British HCR experience 2010

  • Here you could get the full effect of the calliope, an old-fashioned steam organ that let loose with melodious eructations whenever the ship left port.

    In Twain’s Wake 2007

  • Here you could get the full effect of the calliope, an old-fashioned steam organ that let loose with melodious eructations whenever the ship left port.

    In Twain’s Wake 2007

  • Here you could get the full effect of the calliope, an old-fashioned steam organ that let loose with melodious eructations whenever the ship left port.

    In Twain’s Wake 2007

  • Here you could get the full effect of the calliope, an old-fashioned steam organ that let loose with melodious eructations whenever the ship left port.

    In Twain’s Wake 2007

  • Here you could get the full effect of the calliope, an old-fashioned steam organ that let loose with melodious eructations whenever the ship left port.

    In Twain’s Wake 2007

  • Persons having acid eructations are not very apt to be seized with pleurisy.

    Aphorisms 2007

  • A belch. “… it is thus an orifice, and gives ceaseless issue to eructations …” otiosity.

    Continuing to Improve My Vocabulary « So Many Books 2005

  • The code-speech of racist right-wingers, and the repeated racist eruptions and prejudiced eructations of supposed non-racists, have grown more sophisticated over the years, but it seems hard to believe – and on the evidence impossible to credit – that those patterns have noticeably diminished since “even a few years ago”.

    What Has Changed? « Lean Left 2007

  • In cases of chronic lientery, acid eructations supervening when there were none previously, is a good symptom.

    Aphorisms 2007

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