paunchy

Definition

Having a paunch; having a prominent stomach; potbellied.

Etymology

From paunch + -y.

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!""