Definitions for paunch

paunch paunch

Spelling: [pawnch, pahnch]
IPA: /pɔntʃ, pɑntʃ/

Paunch is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 71 anagrams from letters in paunch (achnpu).

Definitions for paunch

noun

  1. a large and protruding belly; potbelly.
  2. the belly or abdomen.
  3. the rumen.

Origin of paunch

1325-75; Middle English paunche Anglo-French, for Middle French pance Latin panticēs (plural) bowels

Examples for paunch

In the male hierarchy of overweightness that runs upward from baby fat to morbid obesity, the paunch is the glorious exception.

Once they leave office, the paunch is usually shed quietly á la Bill Clinton.

Having yourself immortalized with a paunch indicated you were wealthy/held high office/were involved in derring-do.

A merchant, like the other merchants, and his paunch is also that of the real merchant.

He was getting something of a paunch, and sorrow had no effect on it.

I dared not retort, but I looked so hard at his paunch that the General smiled.

If it hit en in the paunch, it's 'not out' and the fella must have suffered.

Would not it be a good thing to make a good clean incision in that paunch.

Hart's the good ol' boy type: wife, kids, mistress, no-nonsense demeanor, the beginnings of a paunch.

He has a pudgy face and a paunch that gives him a teddy bear-like quality.

Word Value for paunch
Scrable

13

Words with friends

16

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