paunch
/pɔːnt͡ʃ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.02 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The first compartment of the stomach of a ruminant, the rumen.
noun
The belly of a human, especially a large, fat protruding one.
noun
A paunch mat.
verb
To remove the internal organs of a ruminant, prior to eating.
Example Sentences
- "See also: pooch"
- "Since retiring from athletics, he has developed a paunch."
- "Haunch Paunch and Jowl—so that's the derisive picture the radicals had drawn of me. The lean, drawn starvelings in their dream-stupefied state were jealous of my well filled out, prosperous form. It had not yet reached the terrible proportions of obesity that years in a swivel chair on the judicial bench had later given me. But I suppose I was beginning to get fat."
- "“And another sort of weak, flailing blow to the paunch. Neither of these two are in any condition to be fighting.”"
- "(Caliban) Why, as I told thee, 'tis a custom with him I' th' afternoon to sleep: there thou may'st brain him, Having first seiz'd his books; or with a log Batter his skull, or paunch him with a stake, Or cut his wezand with thy knife"
Etymology
From Middle English paunche, from Old Northern French panche, Old French pance (French panse), from Latin pantex.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Medicine.