paunch
noun
a large and protruding belly; potbelly.
paunched
-
a word derived from
paunch.
Example Sentences
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The instant his heavily paunched figure moved from the wings, the crowd turned on the applause full blast.
From Time Magazine Archive
A battered bar filled one side, and before it stood five men in a row, attended upon by a heavily paunched and aproned fellow.
From Fire Mountain A Thrilling Sea Story by Norman Springer
Not more than forty, with a clear, pallid skin that had never known the sun, he was paunched and weak-legged.
From The Jacket (Star-Rover) by Jack London
Why truly, God hath made a fair world, Giles, a good world to live in, and to live is to act—yet here have I lain most basely sleeping—" "Like any paunched friar, brother.
From Beltane the Smith by Jeffery Farnol
"Which direction are we to begin at?" asked the notary, a jolly notary fat and pale, big paunched too, and strapped up in an entirely new hunting-costume bought at Rouen.
From The works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 5 Une Vie and Other Stories by Guy de Maupassant
