Definitions for paunchy

paunchy paunch·y

Spelling: [pawn-chee, pahn-]
IPA: /ˈpɔn tʃi, ˈpɑn-/

Paunchy is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 108 anagrams from letters in paunchy (achnpuy).

Definitions for paunchy

adjective

  1. having a large and protruding belly; potbellied:

Origin of paunchy

First recorded in 1590-1600; paunch + -y1

Examples for paunchy

A style like this resembles a paunchy man who can be relied on not to pick the daisies.

In a land berth, growing fat and paunchy, and eating his heart out for the sea, or—— The sea got him one way or another!

McKee was bald, paunchy, middle-aged, his face loose from easy living.

His face was rather fat and roundish; his build powerful but paunchy.

Timothy Sweeny had come down from his shop and stood in the background, a paunchy, flabby figure of a man, with keen beady eyes.

Should a paunchy waddler of this sort wreck at once his pride and his car?

"Most unfortunate," sighed heavy-set, paunchy Martin Gest, gnawing his lip.

The reporter, a paunchy, balding man, scribbled furiously in his notebook.

He is an undersized, paunchy East German, with hair the color of wet hay, and an extremely pallid complexion.

"How are you, paunchy Pilate," said I, gettin' off a joak at his expense.

Word Value for paunchy
Scrable

17

Words with friends

19

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