paunchy

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
17
Words With Friends
19
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ˈpɔːn(t)ʃi/
See all 3 pronunciations
/ˈpɔːn(t)ʃi/ · /ˈpɔnt͡ʃi/ · /ˈpɑnt͡ʃi/

Definition of paunchy

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Having a paunch; having a prominent stomach; potbellied.
    “He exercised every day to avoid becoming paunchy in his old age.”
    “A trim-middled hog will have a higher dressing percentage than a wasty, gutty, paunchy, heavy-middled hog.”
    “"They live in New York, and he had the effrontery to give me a dinner and ask all his collaborators to it, fat, paunchy men who smelled of money. Pfaugh!"”
    “"I don't think personalities change," Bill said. "We get a little paunchier and we get a few wrinkles and a little gray hair. But you have the same personality."”
    “The National Park Service has capitalized on the increasingly rotund population by live-streaming the hungry bears and creating an online bracket in which 12 of the park’s paunchiest are pitted against one another. Fans vote for their favorite bear in head-to-head matchups until the title of Fattest Bear is bestowed, this year on Tuesday.”

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Etymology

From paunch + -y.

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