Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having a potbelly.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a prominent paunch; big-bellied.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Pot-bellied.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having a
paunch ; having a prominent stomach;potbellied .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having a large belly
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Examples
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Fatty can be said to be 'paunchy' on his blog where he rides with Radio shack.
This Just In: I'm Giving Away A Free Bike Because I Don't Need It! BikeSnobNYC 2010
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See that tall, kind of paunchy fellow who just came in? "
Night Arrant Gygax, Gary 1987
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They were fine for dewy-eyed kids and paunchy, middle-aged liberals to whom his biography was a lure and not a problem.
O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011
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You are a middle aged, paunchy white guy earning about $35K per year who could not afford to attend college.
Think Progress » Once again, conservatives see Muslim conspiracy in an administration logo. 2010
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KSM, dressed in a rumpled T-shirt, looks dopey, disheveled, and paunchy, the exact opposite of his own heroic self-conception as the James Bond of Jihad.
The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011
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Eddie was the best player on the court, and O was better than the former Stanford starter, who had gotten paunchy in middle age and complained his knees were bothering him.
O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011
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Eddie was the best player on the court, and O was better than the former Stanford starter, who had gotten paunchy in middle age and complained his knees were bothering him.
O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011
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The archetypal gay wedding portrait -- a pair of middle-aged women or paunchy men looking uncomfortable in rented outfits worn at the wrong time of day -- is destined to be hung in the same gallery of dated images of social progress alongside snapshots of flappers defiantly puffing cigarettes and Kodachromes of African Americans wearing dashikis.
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They were fine for dewy-eyed kids and paunchy, middle-aged liberals to whom his biography was a lure and not a problem.
O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011
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KSM, dressed in a rumpled T-shirt, looks dopey, disheveled, and paunchy, the exact opposite of his own heroic self-conception as the James Bond of Jihad.
The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011
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