rumbling_stomach

📅 Updated:2026-05-01

🕒 Created:2021-04-03

🆔 ID:34778

Description

Rumbling Stomach describes various noises caused by muscular contractions in the stomach and intestines. A rumbling stomach may indicate hunger, digestion, or indicate a character suffering indigestion, nausea, or is about to burp, fart, or urgently needs to defecate. These abdominal sounds can be often seen in stuffing and inflation, and very frequently are a part of vore content.

Tagging Notes

This tag should be used whether the rumbling stomach is represented by visual effects, written onomatopoeia, or audible sound effects in an animation.

Onomatopoeia for a rumbling stomach includes "growl" "grrr" "grumble" "glorp" or even just "rumble"
- These onomatopoeia are often altered for effect, to imply a difference in sound length and volume (e.g. "grrrrRRUMBllle")

A rumbling stomach may be represented by iconography such as bubbles, squeans, emanata, or wiggling motion lines around the character's abdomen/belly
- These are often paired with onomatopoeia or sound effects, but may be seen alone

Another way a rumbling stomach can be show visually is through a common cartoon trope that has the surface of the belly rippling as the stomach growls (see example 2 above).

Rumbling Stomach Vs. Other Similar Tags

Rumbling stomach, unlike the following tags, can apply to visual-only representations of the phenomenon.

Digestion Noises

digestion noises specifically applies to sound effects/onomatopoeia, which are explicitly intended to represent digestion
digestion noises can be used for any organ, which applies to exotic forms of vore (e.g. digestion noises from the balls in cock vore)