paunch
noun
ˈpȯnch 
ˈpänch
1
a
: the belly and its contents
b
: potbelly
2
: rumen
Synonyms
- bay window
- beer belly
- belly
- corporation
- gut
- pot
- potbelly
See all Synonyms & Antonyms 
Example Sentences
He sat with his hands folded over his paunch. He used to be very thin but now he has a slight paunch.
Recent Examples on the Web The carefree, six-pack wild child of the late 1980s is now a reflective and sober man with a middle-aged paunch and gait. 
Rodney Ho, ajc, 26 May 2022 Not enough time to fall in love with gluten, grow a slight paunch, tame his golf swing, or find a wooden bench outside a tackle shop where everyone gossips and drinks sludge coffee. Jason Gay, WSJ, 14 Mar. 2022 The bartender was a big, nasty-looking old guy with an enormous paunch, a flat-top haircut four inches high, and an unlit cigar turned backwards in his mouth. Jamie Kitman, Car and Driver, 16 Feb. 2022 Beavis, on the other hand, has just a slight paunch and a few wrinkles to go with his reading glasses. Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 5 Jan. 2022 The leader of all this non-action is the middle-aged Agent Garrick, a shambolic, avuncular presence with a paunch and a nervous cough. Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2021 The portly patriarch of paunch persevered to pulverize the Baron of Beardonkadonk in the final match of #FatBearWeek 2021. Naledi Ushe, PEOPLE.com, 7 Oct. 2021 Raymond taught the Phanatic what became his signature moves: how to whomp his paunch, how to suction a plunger to the head of a bald man, how to stand at a distance and land rings on the plunger. New York Times, 6 Aug. 2021 Gone was the Bear, and in his place was a lean man, skinny even, though with a paunch that came with the years, nearly 73 at the time. John Penner, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2021 See More
Rodney Ho, ajc, 26 May 2022 Not enough time to fall in love with gluten, grow a slight paunch, tame his golf swing, or find a wooden bench outside a tackle shop where everyone gossips and drinks sludge coffee. Jason Gay, WSJ, 14 Mar. 2022 The bartender was a big, nasty-looking old guy with an enormous paunch, a flat-top haircut four inches high, and an unlit cigar turned backwards in his mouth. Jamie Kitman, Car and Driver, 16 Feb. 2022 Beavis, on the other hand, has just a slight paunch and a few wrinkles to go with his reading glasses. Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 5 Jan. 2022 The leader of all this non-action is the middle-aged Agent Garrick, a shambolic, avuncular presence with a paunch and a nervous cough. Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2021 The portly patriarch of paunch persevered to pulverize the Baron of Beardonkadonk in the final match of #FatBearWeek 2021. Naledi Ushe, PEOPLE.com, 7 Oct. 2021 Raymond taught the Phanatic what became his signature moves: how to whomp his paunch, how to suction a plunger to the head of a bald man, how to stand at a distance and land rings on the plunger. New York Times, 6 Aug. 2021 Gone was the Bear, and in his place was a lean man, skinny even, though with a paunch that came with the years, nearly 73 at the time. John Penner, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2021 See More Word History
Etymology
Middle English, from Anglo-French *panche, pance, from Latin pantic-, pantex
First Known Use
14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
Medical Definition
paunch
noun
ˈpȯnch, ˈpänch
: rumen
paunches
noun
as in bellies
an enlarged or bulging abdomen Santa is depicted as a white-bearded man with a big paunch Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- bellies
- stomachs
- potbellies
- corporations
- bay windows
- fat
- guts
- obesities
- pots
- tummies
- beer bellies
- breadbaskets
- overweights
- corpulences
