paunchy
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 17
- Words With Friends
- 19
- Letters
- 7
/ˈpɔːn(t)ʃi/
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/ˈpɔːn(t)ʃi/ · /ˈpɔnt͡ʃi/ · /ˈpɑnt͡ʃi/
Definition of paunchy
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
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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.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From paunch + -y.
Words you can make from paunchy
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