paunch
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1. paunch - Noun
2. paunch - Verb
Meaning
The belly and its contents; the abdomen; also, the first stomach, or rumen, of ruminants. See Rumen.
A paunch mat; -- called also panch.
To pierce or rip the belly of; to eviscerate; to disembowel.
To stuff with food.
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There's something sexy about a gut. Not a 400-pound beer gut, but a little paunch. I love that.
He lay on his chair with his hands clasped above his paunch not reading, or sleeping, but basking like a creature gorged with existence.
There is a difference between looking all right in a shirt and taking the shirt off. The older that us dudes get, the more the paunch has to be worked on. It's hard.
The paunch warm, the foot sleepy.
He had gray hair that had fallen victim to male-pattern baldness, a paunch around his middle, and glittering pale-blue eyes.
Matt is tall and scruffy, with a paunch and a patchy beard.