Noun: paunch
| Singular | paunch |
| Plural | paunches |
Sample Sentences
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See also: pooch
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Since retiring from athletics, he has developed a paunch.
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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. [1924 July 26 [1923 August 26], Samuel Badisch Ornitz, “Fifth Period”, in Haunch Paunch and Jowl, eighth printing, New York, N.Y.: Boni and Liveright, section III, page 218:]
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“And another sort of weak, flailing blow to the paunch. Neither of these two are in any condition to be fighting.” [2022 July 26, William Meny & Paul Simms, “The Night Market” (10:28 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 4, episode 4, spoken by Ringmaster (Nick Corirossi):]
Nouns inflected like paunch
penniless-bench,
wintergrass,
kitchen pass,
grey fox,
grey box,
trailer hitch,
paleness,
loaded march,
Tush Push,
horribleness,
slaughteress,
chapparvovirus,
greenwax,
royal flush,
crab cactus,
geostress,
syngas,
wintercress,
ichthys,
ichthus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English paunche, from Old Northern French panche, Old French pance (French panse), from Latin pantex. See: Middle English Nouns '
paunche', French Nouns '
panse', Latin Nouns '
pantex'.
Verbs referencing "paunch"
Dutch Nouns
pens.