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paunchy
Part of Speech: Noun
Results: 1
1. Pot- bellied.
Examples of usage:
- Hadn't I noticed how common cows got paunchy and how well the fat was distributed on the pure- breds? - "Ma Pettengill", Harry Leon Wilson.
- He had known the waspish Mrs. Lainey and her paunchy husband since that day when, newly come to the Lazy River country, he had met them, their buckboard wrecked by a runaway and their one child apparently dying of internal injuries. - "Paradise Bend", William Patterson White.
- I asked whether he did what he did in malice, in a rivalry that our quarrel and our common defeat at the hands of the paunchy impresario could not wipe out, or whether he discerned that I should join in his acid laugh, and, as I read his speech, cry to myself, " Lo, here is truth and a man who tells it!" - "The King's Mirror", Anthony Hope.