paunchy
3
7.4
- adjective
- /ˈpɔːn.tʃi/
:
barrigón
- The blue also made him look less paunchy.
- paunchy man
- paunchy belly
- slightly paunchy
Examples
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A paunchy, mustachioed man in a green plaid woolen suit slows down and catches her eye.
Fiction book (2001) -
Manigault was a handsome, paunchy man of middle years, with a mane of white hair that gave him a distinguished air.
Fiction book (1993) -
Always careful about his diet, he never became paunchy.
Academic text (2010) -
Trim and athletic as a youth, Jack had become paunchy in middle age.
Fiction book (1993) -
One of the police, a paunchy sergeant, looks at a holo he is holding.
Fiction book (1994) -
The judge is a paunchy man, wearing a stretched-out polo shirt, his pants riding under his belly.
Fiction book (1998) -
Balding, paunchy, divorced.
Fiction book (2002) -
I hate climbing up to the wheelhouse to shake hands with a paunchy man in a pea coat who smells of pipe tobacco.
Fiction book (1996) -
Pork's huge paunchy body moved toward the gilt-lettered doors of the brewery offices like a whale in a sea of wringing-wet air.
Fiction book (1993) -
The paunchy man struggled to fasten his belt after a large meal.
Synonyms
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1.0
Having a lot of extra body weight
4
3.7
A person or animal with a round belly that sticks out
4
7.3
A person who is very fat with a large, heavy body
1
5.5
Having extra fat around the waist
1
3.5
Having a large round belly
A person with a large belly that sticks out
Having a large round stomach that sticks out
Antonyms
How Protruding
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Paunchy comes from the older word paunch, which meant 'belly' and came from an old French and Latin word for the same idea. So, paunchy means 'having a large, sticking-out belly', which is why we use it for someone with a round middle.