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Definition of paunch in English: paunchnoun pɔːn(t)ʃ 1A large or protruding belly. 大肚子 his body was powerful and square, with the beginnings of a paunch Example sentencesExamples - But it isn't just a pretty bike marketed to aging riders with chubby wallets and matching paunches.
- Hank got up with a groan and, feeling every one of his 46 years, he shrugged his suspenders back over his middle-age paunch.
- It's not clever or funny, except if you have a paunch.
- Over the top of this loincloth spilled his sizeable paunch.
- They flow over paunches and make no definite statements about waists.
- He works out frequently, totes no middle-aged paunch and looks ready to carry on with another 20 years of activity.
- Some wear shirts that stretch over round paunches.
- For a man who's all about speed and endurance, he is distinctly non-streamlined, with a moon-shaped face and a pronounced paunch set over thick, powerful legs.
- He is more interested in getting drunk, making out and filling his growing paunch.
- We have been long used to calling obese persons ‘healthy’ and looking at a paunch as the sign of prosperity.
- In India a slight paunch is seen as a sign of prosperity?
- Francisco moved to the desk, adjusting the towel around the paunch of his waist before bending over the bottom drawer.
- This is rich coming from a bald old guy with a bushy beard and a paunch like a kangaroo.
- His appearance was quite ordinary, ordinary height, ordinary brown hair and eyes and the barest beginnings of a paunch around his middle.
- Within a month, you are guaranteed a paunch, a pot belly, and the inability to walk up stairs.
- He had a slight paunch at his waistline but it was solid.
- But since starting work I've started developing a bit of a paunch… so I'm voluntarily playing sport again.
- The Maoris on stage boast a range of physiques from sumo paunches to gym-fed beefcake.
- A paunch could be an obscene thing to many, but never mind that a number of policemen have it in the city.
- The story dies otherwise as you can't blame a person for not giving up their seat to a woman with a slight paunch.
Synonyms pot belly, fat/protruding stomach/belly/abdomen, beer belly, stomach, belly, middle, midriff, waist, waistline informal beer gut, gut, tummy, tum, pot, breadbasket dated, humorous corporation 2Nautical
archaic A thick strong mat used to give protection from chafing on a mast or spar. 〔航海〕〈古〉防磨席，垫席
verb pɔːn(t)ʃ [with object]Disembowel (an animal) 剖腹取出（动物）的内脏 one of the things I had to do was to paunch and skin a hare 我必须要做的事情之一就是取出一只野兔的内脏并扒掉它的皮。 Example sentencesExamples - Behind them on the grass the headless and paunched body of a sow lay where they had dropped it.
Synonyms disembowel, eviscerate, draw, dress, clean, remove the innards from, remove the guts from
Derivativesnounˈpɔːn(t)ʃɪnəsˈpɔn(t)ʃinəs It's another two star review over in the Times, and again his paunchiness is the main topic.
adjectivepaunchier, paunchiest ˈpɔːn(t)ʃiˈpɔntʃi Having a large or protruding belly. a slightly paunchy, balding, middle-aged man Example sentencesExamples - Their Italian shoes are unscuffed and their ties are always straight and they never go bald or get paunchy around the middle.
- What does she want for dating the paunchy middle-aged man?
- They are boring and paunchy and who would want them, unless they are wealthy or powerful?
OriginLate Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French pa(u)nche, based on Latin pantex, pantic-, usually in the plural in the sense 'intestines'. Rhymesgraunch, haunch, launch, raunch, staunch Definition of paunch in US English: paunchnoun 1A large or protruding abdomen or stomach. 大肚子 Example sentencesExamples - Within a month, you are guaranteed a paunch, a pot belly, and the inability to walk up stairs.
- But since starting work I've started developing a bit of a paunch… so I'm voluntarily playing sport again.
- The Maoris on stage boast a range of physiques from sumo paunches to gym-fed beefcake.
- Francisco moved to the desk, adjusting the towel around the paunch of his waist before bending over the bottom drawer.
- For a man who's all about speed and endurance, he is distinctly non-streamlined, with a moon-shaped face and a pronounced paunch set over thick, powerful legs.
- In India a slight paunch is seen as a sign of prosperity?
- The story dies otherwise as you can't blame a person for not giving up their seat to a woman with a slight paunch.
- Hank got up with a groan and, feeling every one of his 46 years, he shrugged his suspenders back over his middle-age paunch.
- He works out frequently, totes no middle-aged paunch and looks ready to carry on with another 20 years of activity.
- His appearance was quite ordinary, ordinary height, ordinary brown hair and eyes and the barest beginnings of a paunch around his middle.
- It's not clever or funny, except if you have a paunch.
- Some wear shirts that stretch over round paunches.
- Over the top of this loincloth spilled his sizeable paunch.
- But it isn't just a pretty bike marketed to aging riders with chubby wallets and matching paunches.
- We have been long used to calling obese persons ‘healthy’ and looking at a paunch as the sign of prosperity.
- This is rich coming from a bald old guy with a bushy beard and a paunch like a kangaroo.
- He had a slight paunch at his waistline but it was solid.
- They flow over paunches and make no definite statements about waists.
- A paunch could be an obscene thing to many, but never mind that a number of policemen have it in the city.
- He is more interested in getting drunk, making out and filling his growing paunch.
Synonyms pot belly, fat abdomen, fat belly, fat stomach, protruding abdomen, protruding belly, protruding stomach, beer belly, stomach, belly, middle, midriff, waist, waistline 2Nautical
archaic A thick strong mat used to give protection from chafing on a mast or spar. 〔航海〕〈古〉防磨席，垫席
OriginLate Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French pa(u)nche, based on Latin pantex, pantic-, usually in the plural in the sense ‘intestines’. |