paunchy
/ˈpɔnt͡ʃi/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.66 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "He exercised every day to avoid becoming paunchy in his old age."
- "A trim-middled hog will have a higher dressing percentage than a wasty, gutty, paunchy, heavy-middled hog."
- ""They live in New York, and he had the effrontery to give me a dinner and ask all his collaborators to it, fat, paunchy men who smelled of money. Pfaugh!""
- ""I don't think personalities change," Bill said. "We get a little paunchier and we get a few wrinkles and a little gray hair. But you have the same personality.""
- "The National Park Service has capitalized on the increasingly rotund population by live-streaming the hungry bears and creating an online bracket in which 12 of the park’s paunchiest are pitted against one another. Fans vote for their favorite bear in head-to-head matchups until the title of Fattest Bear is bestowed, this year on Tuesday."
Etymology
Etymology tree English paunch Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English paunchy From paunch + -y.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈpɔnt͡ʃi/
- British English: /ˈpɔːn(t)ʃi/