The couch is too deep, and he is growing heavier; he will be Buddha-like in girth at some point soon.
Frida is a colossal woman, in girth and stature, and she becomes the dark star at the center of this disconcerting debut.
Fairly or not, many people see that kind of amplitude of girth as a sign of irresponsibility or lack of discipline or something.
First came Kevin Smith, who was not allowed to board a Southwest Airlines flight because of his girth.
Mark Spiegler waddles, shifting his girth from one foot to the other, swaying slightly side to side.
Let me but get my girth tightened and we may soon be out of danger's way.'
It was a tree that might have had some twelve feet of girth.
The saddle was black with long skirts, an' it had only one girth.
He had the girth of an earth in him and had to do something with it.
Those he measured were only twenty-one feet long, and two feet in girth.
c.1300, "belt around a horse's body," from Old Norse gjorð "girdle, belt, hoop," from Proto-Germanic *gertu- (cf Gothic gairda "girdle"), from the same source as gird. Sense of "measurement around an object" first recorded 1640s.
