paunchy
English
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]paunchy (comparative paunchier, superlative paunchiest)
- Having a paunch; having a prominent stomach; potbellied.
- He exercised every day to avoid becoming paunchy in his old age.
- 1958, John M. Kays, Basic animal husbandry, page 269:
- A trim-middled hog will have a higher dressing percentage than a wasty, gutty, paunchy, heavy-middled hog.
- 1976, Robert Herrick, Waste, Ayer Publishing, page 55:
- "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!"
- 2002 December 15, Debra Galant, “JERSEY; She Loved Him, She Loved Him Not, She Loves Him”, in The New York Times[1]:
- "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."
- 2018 October 7, Andrew R. Chow, “There Are Fat Bears in Alaska, and You Can Vote on Your Favorite”, in The New York Times[2]:
- 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.
Translations
[edit]having a paunch
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