girth
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- noun
- /ɡɜrθ/
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circunferencia
- To measure your waist accurately, you need to find the girth just above your hips.
- heart girth
- length and girth
- thigh girth
So if anything like girth can be important.
- So if anything like girth can be important.
- Like, do you have trouble fitting in because of your breadth or girth or heft your weight?
- I can't buckle under my sheer weight, my sheer girth.
Examples
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And Pablo is still young; all that girth will catch up with him soon enough.
Blog text (10) -
A boy in the 190 lb. range had spread his arms to circle the girth of his female twin.
Fiction book (2002) -
Oh, it's the same girth but slightly longer.
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Not the girth, not the length, but same style.
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It's got quite a girth.
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With your height and your girth.
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Even the wide girth of his middle carries the promise of exceptional power.
Fiction book (1999) -
Jig's grandmother was a woman of some girth, with a high forehead and a straight nose.
Fiction book (2002) -
The way his girth makes him rasp even when he's standing still is endearing.
Fiction book (1995) -
Laurie ran ahead, wrapped her arms around his vast girth, equine in scope, and kissed him on the cheek.
Fiction book (1996)
Surface Forms
Etymology
Girth comes from an old English word related to gird and girdle, which meant a 'band' around the body. So girth now means the measurement around the middle because it once named the band that goes around the waist.